Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich.' in a masterly new translation, to 'The Raid,' 'The Wood-felling,' 'Three Deaths,' 'Polikushka,' 'After the Ball,' and 'The Forged Coupon,' all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent

Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction. The ten other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil', and 'Hadji Murat' which has been described by Harold Bloom as 'the best story in the

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

'No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied.' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit,

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat

Tolstoy Selected Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

The Cossacks and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

A collection of some of Tolstoy's most powerful powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to

Selected Short Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

It is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts of Tolstoy's work as well

Death Threats - And Other Stories (Simenon Georges)(Paperback / softback)

The Kreutzer Sonata: And Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

These four novellas--Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad--each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except for Family Happiness, translated by J.D. Huff), modernized and corrected against modern

A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession, ' 'Religion and Morality, ' 'What Is Religion, and of What

Family Happiness: Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but during his long lifetime Tolstoy wrote numerous shorter works to fill many volumes. Included here are two of his finest short novels--Family Happiness and Master and the

War and Peace (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia

Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions) (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

A Confession (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

Despite having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, at the age of 51, looked back on his life and considered it a meaningless, regrettable failure. A Confession provides insight into the great Russian writer's movement from the pursuit of aesthetic ideals toward matters of

How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and civilization. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in

Boyhood, Youth & On the Significance of Science and Art (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.Youth is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It

Scent of Almonds and Other Stories (Lackberg Camilla)(Paperback / softback)

THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo

War and Peace (Tolstoy Leo)(Pevná vazba)

When Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those engulfed by the violence. Although told on a panoramic scale, War and Peace explores how the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of love and valor affect the personal lives of three principal

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

'One of the greatest love stories in world literature.' Vladimir NabokovIn a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society, Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy

Confession (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback / softback)

Describes Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Irving Washington)(Paperback / softback)

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)