Collected Shorter Fiction Boxed Set (2 Volumes) (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Leo Tolstoy,John Bayley,Aylmer Maude,Louise Maude,Nigel J Cooper

ISBN 10: 1857152433 / ISBN 13: 9781857152432

Published by Everyman 2001-06-21, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Shorter Fiction Boxed Set (2 Volumes) (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)
• Publisher: Everyman 2001-06-21
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857152433
• ISBN 13: 9781857152432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy’s enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. It also includes several short fables which point to his later preoccupation with the religious life. Volume 2 reveals how these spiritual intimations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces which equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man and Hadji Murad will recognize the brilliant younger novelist, now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness.

About the Author

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.