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Tolstoy
Author | : Rosamund Bartlett |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547545878 |
This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141959541 |
1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini's novel The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year.
Leo Tolstoy
Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781402711435 |
Tolstoy may have written some of the most expansive novels in all literature, but he also created wonderful short works, too. In a spectacularly illustrated volume that captures all the atmosphere of Tolstoy's Russia, Tolstoy scholar Donna Tussing Orwin carefully presents and annotates five of the writer's finest stories: "God Sees the Truth, But Waits," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," The Empty Drum," "The Imp and the Crust," and "Three Questions." Louise and Aylmer Maude, who knew Tolstoy personally, have translated the text.
Tolstoy as Teacher
Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects-including imaginative writing-and wrote about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education.
The Life of Tolstoy
Author | : Aylmer Maude |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Authors, Russian |
ISBN | : |
Tolstoy's Major Fiction
Author | : Edward Wasiolek |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226873986 |
"Edward Wasiolek, after much valuable work on Dostoevsky, has now written one of the best books on Tolstoy in recent decades. This may be in part because of his preoccupation with Tolstoy's most challenging contemporary, and the resulting sense of their unlikeness in a common pursuit. But there are other, unspeculative reasons. Few studies of Tolstoy have been so carefully pondered and so firmly organized to convince; and not so many show the flexibility and variety of its approach. Wasiolek proposes an essentially simple and consistent reading, but he advances it with subtlety and discretion."—Henry Gifford, Times Literary Supplement
The Cossacks
Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1602060150 |
This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy' s semiautobiographical story 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. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifestyle of the local Cossacks, Olenin falls in love with a free-spirited girl whose fiancé turns out to be a formidable opponent. Showcasing the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy' s later masterpieces, this long overdue translation is a revelation.
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Author | : Yiyun Li |
Publisher | : Public Space Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781734590760 |
A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress.