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Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), was a
Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists
for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's
further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer
made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy
family.
Translated by Aylmer Maude, V. Tchertkoff, and A.C. Fifield.
The soul-searching book that inspired Gandhi to embrace the concept
of passive resistance, Tolstoy's 1894 polemic outlines a radical,
well-reasoned revision of traditional Christian thinking. The
revered novelist and political thinker denounces violent
revolution, calling upon readers to rely upon their inner divinity
for the strength to effect social change.
Described by Dostoevsky as "flawless" and by Faulkner as the best
novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of
infidelity and vengeance. Set against the backdrop of high society
in in 19th-century Moscow and Saint Petersburg, it portrays the
doomed love affair between sensuous and rebellious Anna and the
dashing Count Vronsky. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy brought to
perfection the novel of social realism, creating a masterpiece that
bares the Russian soul. As Matthew Arnold wrote, "We are not to
take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece
of life." Anna Karenina is a big book, and most publishers try to
pack it into small newsprint pages with tiny, nearly unreadable
type. This edition, on the other hand, has been newly designed and
printed on large-format, high-quality paper with easy-to-read type,
making it a deluxe volume at a still-reasonable price.
"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John
Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting . .
. has made "The Cossacks the most popular of all his works." This
vibrant new translation of Tolstoy's 1862 novel, by PEN Translation
Award winner Peter Constantine, is the author's
semiautobiographical depiction of young Olenin, a wealthy,
disaffected Muscovite, who joins the Russian army and travels to
the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic
life. Quartered with his regiment in a Cossack village, Olenin
revels in the glories of nature and the rough strength of the
Cossacks and Chechens. Smitten by his unrequited love for a local
girl, Maryanka, Olenin has a profound but ultimately short-lived
spiritual awakening. Try as he might to assimilate, he remains an
awkward outsider and his long search for a more enlightened and
purposeful existence comes to naught.
With the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy's
later masterpieces, this long overdue major new translation is a
revelation.
"From the Hardcover edition.
La obra de Tolstoi reflejo toda una epoca de la vida de Rusia: para
el "la novela tiene como finalidad la descripcion global de la vida
humana"; y los sucesos que se desarrollan en Anna Karenina revelan
una observacion atenta y directa de un ambiente del que el propio
autor fue participe. Aunque desde su aparicion fue acogida como una
reaccion contra el movimiento naturalista frances, sigue en esta
obra los modelos del naturalismo hasta superarlos.
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