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Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction concentrates on his later storie ...Show more
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him - and so Murat ...Show more
Hadji Murat by graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'My personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world.' Harold Bloom
Lives and Deaths by Leo Tolstoy ; Boris Dralyuk
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Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk.
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, "The Two Hussars" contrasts a dashing father and hi ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces ...Show more
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive soci ...Show more
The Cossacks and Hadji Murat (Penguin pocket classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected ...Show more
The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other StoriesTolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works fro ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated - Also included The Devil, another celebrated novella by Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction
The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction
In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. Carson, the eminent British publisher, editor, and translator who, in the words of his author Mary Beard, had probably more influe ...Show more