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War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades
Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs.
Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the
chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the
expression of the noble virtues of love and valor through their
impact on the lives of three principal characters: the courageous
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov, and the
nobly born beauty Natasha Rostov.
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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.
First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic
story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the
cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the
couple finds their romance doomed by the sexual mores of their time
and place, and the double standards that apply to men and women.
The tale's panoramic sweep and Tolstoy's colorful depiction of
Russia and the European continent are virtually unparalleled in
world literature. This novel, in the estimation of William
Faulkner, is 'the best ever written.' Anna Karenina is one of
Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classics. Each volume features
authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an
exquisitely designed bonded leather binding, with distinctive gilt
edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and
collectible, these books offers hours of pleasure to readers young
and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.
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.
'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will
show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and
its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He
creates some of the most vital and involving characters in
literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St
Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and
political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet
impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and
the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchanting
Natasha Rostov. 'It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All
human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a
single book, this would be it' Andrew Marr VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN
SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of
Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina,
commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He
also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume
contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations
that have stood the test of time. In the early story Family
Happiness, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point
of view of a young wife. In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a
terrifying study of marital breakdown, in The Devil a powerful
depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the
finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony
of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality. This
volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially
for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook, formely lecturer in
literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster. Previous
work contributed by Dr Cook for Wordsworth includes an introduction
and notes to Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby.
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western
world for his epic WAR AND PEACE and splendid ANNA KARENINA, but
during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to
fill many volumes. Reprinted here are two of his finest short
novels -- FAMILY HAPPINESS and MASTER AND MAN -- and one short
story -- ALYOSHA THE POT
Alongside FAMILY HAPPINESS, Harper Perennial will publish the
short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather,
Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully
designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary
fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also,
in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new
collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story."
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short
stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Dmitry
Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his
privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among
the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to
be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will
drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to
understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a
space that cannot be traversed... 'It is the richness of Tolstoy's
genius that strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf
The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. This award-winning translation has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy's masterpiece.
Revisit the timeless classic in this graphic retelling of Tolstoy's
celebrated 1869 novel. In this beautifully rendered graphic
adaptation, both fans and newcomers alike will be immersed in the
world of War and Peace, one of the most celebrated Russian novels
of all time, about the misadventures of Pyotr Kirillovich, Ilya
Rostov, and company during the Napoleonic era of Russia. With
richly detailed settings recreating the villas and ballrooms of
19th century Russia, character design based on the real-life
inspirations for the figures in the book, and visual depictions of
elements from the original text, War and Peace: The Graphic Novel
brings Tolstoy's masterpiece to life as never before. Including
forewords from Russian literature experts from the Moscow Central
Library and the Leo Tolstoy Library in Moscow, this graphic
adaptation distills the major plotlines and characters of the
sprawling epic for readers to experience this classic novel in a
whole new way.
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and
published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of
philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions
to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith
and existence, as well as matters of everyday life. Banned in
Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last
major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his
lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's
generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these
edifying and carefully selected pearls of wisdom.
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now,
after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair
of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of
Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little
Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black
Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin
Classics, with books from around the world and across many
centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London
to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to
16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories
lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and
inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin
Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood,
Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other
Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and
Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does
A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious
Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.
'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 from around the world and
across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak,
tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir
Nabokov Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate
affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her
story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with
that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and
domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy
creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the
imagination of readers for decades. 'I've read and re-read this
novel and every time I find another layer in the story' Philippa
Gregory TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE VINTAGE CLASSICS
RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come
out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.
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Resurrection (Paperback, UK ed.)
Leo Tolstoy; Series edited by Keith Carabine; Introduction by Anthony Briggs; Translated by Louise Maude
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This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War
and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the
finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based
on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is
astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman
whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution. She is
found guilty on a technicality, and he determines to overturn the
verdict. This pitches him into a hellish labyrinth of Russian
courts, prisons and bureaucracy, in which the author loses no
opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not
confined to that country) of cruelty and injustice. This is Dickens
for grown-ups, involving a hundred characters, Crime and Punishment
brought forward half a century. With unforgettable set-pieces of
sexual passion, conflict and social injustice, Resurrection
proceeds from brothel to court-room, stinking cells to offices of
state, luxury apartments to filthy life in Siberia. The ultimate
crisis of moral responsibility embroils not only the famous author
and his hero, but also you and me. Can we help resolve the eternal
issues of law and imprisonment?
Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting
Jesus' most central teachings into practice. Jesus' most famous
teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, possesses an irresistible
quality. Who hasn't felt stirred and unsettled after reading these
words, which get to the root of the human condition? This follow-up
to the acclaimed collection Called to Community: The Life Jesus
Wants for His People taps an even broader array of sources,
bringing together prophetic voices from every era and a range of
traditions to consider the repercussions of these essential words.
More than a commentary or devotional, this book is designed to be
read together with others, to inspire communities of faith to
discuss what it might look like to put Jesus' teachings into
practice today.
Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter
written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary
and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's
separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian people
should seek to free themselves from British rule through
non-violent protests and strikes, and other forms of peaceful
resistance. The letter soon gained international attention after it
was published in the Free Hindustan, and it came to the attention
of the young Mahatma Gandhi. Drawing on a variety of sources,
cultures and teachings, Tolstoy's letter was instrumental in
forming Gandhi's views on non-violent resistance - as Gandhi
himself acknowledges in his introduction: 'To me, as a humble
follower of that great teacher whom I have long looked upon as one
of my guides, it is a matter of honour to be connected with the
publication of his letter'.
'This country's leading Tolstoy scholar has selected, edited and
translated a two-volume set of Tolstoy's Letters, which represents
academic publishing of the highest kind.' Yorkshire Post Leo
Tolstoy was unquestionably the most prolific letter-writer of all
the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In this
selection of his correspondence, meticulously edited by R. F.
Christian, readers can discover Tolstoy's views about his own work
and that of other writers, his evolving attitudes towards the times
through which he lived, and his deep meditations on family,
friends, and himself. This second of two volumes of the Letters
spans the years 1880-1910. 'Professor Christian's selection is a
major act of scholarship and publication.' George Steiner, Sunday
Times 'Both scholarly and easy to read . . . exceptionally
rewarding.' Raymond Williams, Guardian 'Enthralling and deeply
moving . . . English Tolstoyans will not be extravagant if they
attach to this work Thucydides' epigraph "A possession for ever."'
Sir William Hayley, Times
'This country's leading Tolstoy scholar has selected, edited and
translated a two-volume set of Tolstoy's Letters, which represents
academic publishing of the highest kind.' Yorkshire Post Leo
Tolstoy was unquestionably the most prolific letter-writer of all
the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In this
selection of his correspondence, meticulously edited by R. F.
Christian, readers can discover Tolstoy's views about his own work
and that of other writers, his evolving attitudes towards the times
through which he lived, and his deep meditations on family,
friends, and himself. This first of two volumes of the Letters is
divided into five sections and spans the years from 1828 to 1879.
'Professor Christian's selection is a major act of scholarship and
publication.' George Steiner, Sunday Times 'Both scholarly and easy
to read . . . exceptionally rewarding.' Raymond Williams, Guardian
'Enthralling and deeply moving . . . English Tolstoyans will not be
extravagant if they attach to this work Thucydides' epigraph "A
possession for ever."' Sir William Hayley, Times
An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of
Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 2 of Tolstoy's Diaries
covers the years 1895-1910. These diaries were meticulously edited
by R. F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a
writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his
development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to
contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation,
education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions.
Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative
summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The
result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of
his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian
world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the
raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of
scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in
recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator
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