Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0141959541

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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.

The Cossacks and Other Early Stories
The Cossacks and Other Early Stories

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2012-09-07

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781840226911

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This edition of Tolstoy's earlier works includes The Cossacks, together with other examples which demonstrate the quality of his writing in the years before War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2001-08-07

Total Pages: 1018

ISBN-13: 0375412875

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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.