Introduction by John Bayley: Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II

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Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Iván Ilých, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man, and Hadji Murád will recognize the brilliant novelist now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness.             Aylmer and Louise Maude’s classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.

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Weight 0.879625 kg
Dimensions 5.0038 × 13.335 × 21.1074 cm
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Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

896

Publisher

Year Published

2001-8-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0375412875

About The Author

John Bayley, author of the Introduction to the collection, is former Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and the author of books on Tolstoy, Hardy, and Housman. He has also written several novels and a memoir, Elegy for Iris.The translators:Aylmer Maude spent much of his life in Russia and was a personal friend of Tolstoy's.Nigel J. Cooper recently retired from Middlesex University, where he was a principal lecturer in modern languages (Russian and French).

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