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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by
E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the
most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming
charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.
Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a
novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all
levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the
irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and
there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an
abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion
of comic relief.
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War and Peace (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude
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This epic is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction
and is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary work. The book details
events leading to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of
the Napoleonic times on Tsarist society. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it
top of its list of Top 100 Books.
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War and Peace (Paperback, New edition)
Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by Henry Claridge; Notes by Henry Claridge; Introduction by Olga Claridge; Notes by Olga Claridge; Translated by …
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia.
While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable
process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with
a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless
and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew
Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's
philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation
is one which received Tolstoy's approval.
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War and Peace (Paperback, Revised)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Louise And Aylmer Maude; Introduction by Amy Mandelker
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'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel
Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and
public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the
French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the
Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately
connected with the national history that is played out in parallel
with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war
and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent
battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary
imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of
characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if
connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions
ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal
of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and
poignant as the grand themes that underlie them. In this revised
and updated version of the definitive and highly acclaimed Maude
translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made
newly available to the contemporary reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
Harmony was not the leitmotif of the Tolstoys's marriage. In
wedlock for forty-eight years, some of them happy, many of them
turbulent, the couple had reached the nadir of mutual exasperation
in 1910, the final year of Tolstoy's life. No biography could
illustrate this more graphically than these diaries for that
fateful year. In addition to the Countess's own diary and day book,
salient extracts are also reproduced from not only from Leo
Tolstoy's diary but his private diary (For Myself Alone) as
well.
There is more. It seems that almost everyone in the household
had a sense of history and was recording their own observations of
the domestic disintegration. The extensive footnotes quote
liberally from, among others, Valentin Bulgakov (Tolstoy's
secretary), Alexander Goldenweiser (pianist and close friend of
Tolstoy), Vladimir Chertkov (Tolstoy's leading disciple, executor
of his will, and the most controversial person in the book - the
Countess's bete noire) and the eldest son, Sergey Tolstoy.
The end is well-known: Tolstoy finally flees the family estate,
Yasnaya Polyana, only to die shortly afterwards in the
station-master's house at Astapovo.
'Never, never marry, my dear fellow That's my advice: never
marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are
capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your
choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a
cruel an irrevocable mistake.' So says Prince Andrew to Pierre in
"War and Peace," but it could be the epigraph for this book.
By all means see the film, "The Last Station," but read this
book as well.
`To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt
in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of
existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to
sacrifice myself for my love.' Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for
his famous novels, also created throughout his sixty-year career as
a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. These
fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even
as they explore a set of themes common in the longer works. The
four novellas selected here stand closest to the novels, and
represent Tolstoy at his creative best, exploring in a specific and
focused way his characteristic themes: life understood as a journey
of the discovery of identity and vocation, the meaning of one's
life in the face of death, and the redemptive role of suffering and
compassion. Family Happiness (1859) traces the psychology of failed
married love yet is written against the tradition of the novel of
romance, marriage and adultery. The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) recounts
a husband's addictions, jealousy, sinister guilt and subsequent
isolation, while The Cossacks (1863) focuses on the experiences of
a young Russian on in the Caucusus whose quest for romantic love
becomes one for the love of 'the whole of God's world'. Finally,
the superbly crafted Hadji Murad (1905) juxtaposes the military and
civilian worlds, and relates a tale of the human violation of the
natural through a series of parallel episodes. Written over a
period of almost fifty years, these works display Tolstoy's
changing views on art and sexuality, women and marriage,
nationalism and ethnicity, war and empire. All four novellas
develop, each in its own unique way, the central Tolystoyan theme
of love. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has
explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most
recent scholarship in the field. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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Twenty-Three Tales (Paperback)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude
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This volume contains Tales for Children, including "God Sees the
Truth, but Waits," "A Prisoner in the Caucasus," and "The
Bear-Hunt"; Popular Stories including, "What Men Live By," "A Spark
Neglected Burns the House," "Two Old Men," and "Where Love Is, God
Is"; a Fairy Tale, "The Story of Ivan the Fool"; stories written to
pictures, including "Evil Allures, but Good Endures," "Little Girls
Wiser Than Men," and "Elias"; folktales retold, including "The
Three Hermits," "The Imp and the Crust," "How Much Land Does a Man
Need?," "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg," "The Godson," "The
Repentant Sinner," and "The Empty Drum"; adaptations from the
French, "The Coffee-House of Surat," "Too Dear "; and stories given
to aid the persecuted Jews, "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria," "Work,
Death and Sickness," and "Three Questions."
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The Devil and Other Stories (Paperback)
Leo Tolstoy; Edited by Richard F. Gustafson; Translated by Louise And Aylmer Maude
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'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as
it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not
that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the
whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as
a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the
central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a
Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical
experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral
and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of
criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy', as well as
reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound
psychological insights. These stories range over much of the
Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the
peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers
to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture
of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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What is Art? (Paperback)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Aylmer Maude
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1910. Maude was a translator of many of Tolstoy's works and the
writer of his biography, of which this is the second volume.
Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest of all novelists with his
collected works numbering 90 and War and Peace and Anna Karenina
being counted as his two masterpieces. After finishing Anna
Karenina Tolstoy renounced all his earlier works and wrote
Conversion to explain his doctrines. Resurrection was his last
major novel. By this time, Tolstoy started to himself more as a
sage and moral leader than an artist. In 1901 the Russian Orthodox
Church excommunicated the author. Tolstoy became seriously ill and
he recuperated in Crimea. He then left his estate to his disciple
Vladimir Chertkov so as to follow the urge to live as a wandering
ascetic, Tolstoy died of pneumonia on November 20, 1910, at a
remote railway junction. Contents: The Transition Stage; Theology
and the Gospels; Letter to the Tsar; Riches and Poverty;
Renunciations; The New Life; What Then Must We Do? A Strenuous
Year; Effects of the Teaching; Non-Resistance; The Sex Question;
The Famine; Patriotism; The Doukhobors; and Excommunication. See
other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Maude's excellent translation of Tolstoy's treatise on the
emotionalist theory of art was the first unexpurgated version of
the work to appear in any languages. More than ninety years later
this work remains, as Vincent Tomas observed, one of the most
rigorous attacks on formalism and on the doctrine of art for art's
sake ever written. Tomas's Introduction makes this the edition of
choice for students of aesthetics and anyone with philosophical
interests.
"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in
1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer
works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in
this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars
and teachers because of their general unavailability. Available
once again, the stories reveal new thematic and stylisitic
dimensions to Tolstoy's oeuvre. While not all of the stories deal
with actual serfdom, they all address the legacy of serfdom, of
choicelessness, in Tolstoy's Russia. These stories are also
thoroughly modern, concerned as they are with the market economy,
changing values, and women's roles in society. Artistically and
historically significant, they constitute ethical and spiritual
questionings that deal with lives out of control, with characters
making sense of the experience of living.
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