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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.
Tolstoy's 1893 book, subtitled "Christianity Not as a Mystical
Teaching but as a New Concept of Life," introduced such vital
concepts as non-violent resistance to 20th Century figures as
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although Tolstoy is best
known as one of the great Russian novelists, his place as a social
reformer and peace advocate cannot be underestimated.
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.
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."
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.
From the celebrated and award winning composer, Dave Malloy comes
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera
based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace. Young
and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the
return of her fiance from the front lines. When she falls under the
spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend
in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of
her shattered reputation. Following a critica
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.
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Anna Karenina (Hardcover)
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"One of the greatest love stories in world literature."-Vladimir
Nabokov "Anna Karenina is a perfect work of art. This novel
contains a humane message that has not yet been heeded in Europe
and that is much needed by the people of the western world."-Fyodor
Dostoevsky "The truth is we are not to take Anna Karenina as a work
of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."-Matthew Arnold
Although love and infidelity are a major themes of Leo Tolstoy's
epic Russian novel Anna Karenina (1877), there is a startling scope
of philosophical and theological insight within the pages of this
monumental work. The pinnacle of the realist novel, the commonplace
lives and frustrations of the characters within Anna Karenina are
woven together in parallel subtexts that ask difficult questions.
The story of the extramarital affair between Anna Karenina and the
young bachelor Count Vronsky is at the center of this complex work
of literature. When Anna's husband discovers the infidelity of his
wife, his primary concern is not the well-being of his marriage,
but his own self-image. The downward spiral of Anna's illicit
behavior is paralleled with the story of Kitty and Konstantin
Levin, who is a wealthy agriculturalist but somewhat socially
clumsy figure. Levin and Kitty's love is unblemished, yet his
struggles with faith and his unrelenting philosophical questioning
paint a profound portrait of internal anguish. This classic novel
examines the depth of the human soul against the backdrop of
19th-century Russia as no other work of literature has done. With
an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Anna Karenina is both modern and readable.
'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.
Beginning with Tolstoy's first extant records of his written
oeuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts
that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910.
It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of
the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output: apothegmatic
sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews,
open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs
and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most
of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never
been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations
personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled
"Tolstoy on Venezuela," an archival restoration of an authentic
first publication in English of "Patriotism, or Peace?" (1896) that
had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old
Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with
the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last
entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for
his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and
non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their
conversation when both are on their way to lunch. It was the
insolvable, the "scandalous," problems of philosophy that never
gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance,
gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy
life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social
protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation
between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public
service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide,
individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What
are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why
do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is
the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning?
Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final
insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already
on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact
shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their
brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works
exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually
absorbing thinker.
Beginning with Tolstoy's first extant records of his written
oeuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts
that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910.
It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of
the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output: apothegmatic
sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews,
open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs
and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most
of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never
been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations
personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled
"Tolstoy on Venezuela," an archival restoration of an authentic
first publication in English of "Patriotism, or Peace?" (1896) that
had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old
Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with
the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last
entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for
his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and
non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their
conversation when both are on their way to lunch. It was the
insolvable, the "scandalous," problems of philosophy that never
gave Tolstoy any rest: freedom of the will, religious tolerance,
gender inequality, the tonal shape of music, the value of healthy
life habits, the responsibilities of teaching, forms of social
protest, cognitive development, science in society, the relation
between body and mind, charity and labor, human dignity and public
service, sexual psychology, national war doctrines, suicide,
individual sacrifice, the purposes of making art. And always: What
are the sources of violence? Why should we engage in politics? Why
do we need governments? How can one practice non-violence? What is
the meaning of our irrepressible desire to seek and find meaning?
Why can't we live without loving? The typeset proofs of his final
insights were brought to Tolstoy for approval when he was already
on his deathbed. The reader will find all the texts in the exact
shape and order of completion as Tolstoy left them. No matter their
brevity or the occasion on which they were written, these works
exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive and intellectually
absorbing thinker.
'An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of
Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 1 of Tolstoy's Diaries
covers the years 1847-1894 and was 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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Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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"One of the greatest love stories in world literature."-Vladimir
Nabokov "Anna Karenina is a perfect work of art. This novel
contains a humane message that has not yet been heeded in Europe
and that is much needed by the people of the western world."-Fyodor
Dostoevsky "The truth is we are not to take Anna Karenina as a work
of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."-Matthew Arnold
Although love and infidelity are a major themes of Leo Tolstoy's
epic Russian novel Anna Karenina (1877), there is a startling scope
of philosophical and theological insight within the pages of this
monumental work. The pinnacle of the realist novel, the commonplace
lives and frustrations of the characters within Anna Karenina are
woven together in parallel subtexts that ask difficult questions.
The story of the extramarital affair between Anna Karenina and the
young bachelor Count Vronsky is at the center of this complex work
of literature. When Anna's husband discovers the infidelity of his
wife, his primary concern is not the well-being of his marriage,
but his own self-image. The downward spiral of Anna's illicit
behavior is paralleled with the story of Kitty and Konstantin
Levin, who is a wealthy agriculturalist but somewhat socially
clumsy figure. Levin and Kitty's love is unblemished, yet his
struggles with faith and his unrelenting philosophical questioning
paint a profound portrait of internal anguish. This classic novel
examines the depth of the human soul against the backdrop of
19th-century Russia as no other work of literature has done. With
an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Anna Karenina is both modern and readable.
War and Peace (1869) is a novel by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
Serialized between 1865 and 1867, it was published in book form in
1869 and has since been recognized as a masterpiece of world
literature. Notable for its epic scale, War and Peace encompasses
hundreds of characters, diligently following its five central
families across fifteen years while featuring detailed imaginings
of such historical figures as Napoleon Bonaparte. In Books I-V, he
introduces the novels main characters while setting the stage for
war between France and Russia. When conflict finally breaks out,
friends and family members are torn apart, political alliances are
shattered, and peace gives way to violence and despair. The novel
begins with a soiree at the Saint Petersburg home of Anna Pavlovna
Scherer. This scene not only introduces the central characters of
the story, it gives a sense of the extensive French influence on
Russian aristocratic society in 1805. Here, Pierre Bezukhov-the
illegitimate son of a wealthy nobleman-and his friend Prince Andrei
Nikolayevich Bolkonsky discuss their mutual dissatisfaction with
life in Saint Petersburg. While Andrei goes to war in order to
escape an unhappy marriage, Pierre becomes trapped in the bitter
dispute surrounding his inheritance. As the years go by, those who
remain in Moscow and Saint Petersburg must adjust to the realities
of war, while those such as Andrei and Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov
experience firsthand the horrors of conflict. With its depiction of
the Battle of Austerlitz, a stunning defeat for Russia and its
Austrian allies, Tolstoy's story brings history to life while
reminding us that the past is always closer than we care to think.
As ambitious as it is triumphant, Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is an
epic novel of history and family, a story of faith and the will to
persevere in the face of unspeakable catastrophe. War and Peace is
a work that transcends both history and description, not just for
the scale of its narrative and setting, but for the scope of its
philosophical interests. Since its publication, it has been praised
as an essential work of literature by Ivan Turgenev, Gustave
Flaubert, Thomas Mann, and Ernest Hemingway, and has been adapted
for film, theater, and television countless times. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a classic of Russian
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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