Lev and Sonya
Author: Louise Smoluchowski
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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Song Without Words
Author: Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781426201738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Tolstoy
Author: Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0547545878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Author: Cathy Porter
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 0062029363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for this privilege.” —Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Translated by Cathy Porter and with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy chronicles in extraordinary detail the diarist’s remarkable marriage to the legendary man of letters, Count Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s turbulent history at the turn of the 20th century, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy offers a fascinating look at a remarkable era, a complicated artist, and the extraordinary woman who stood at his side.
My Life
Author: Софья Андреевна Толстая
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2011-02-04
Total Pages: 1251
ISBN-13: 0776619225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One hundred years after his death in 1910. Lev Nikolaevich Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world's greatest writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya. Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber and editor, she played an important role in the development of her husband's career. Her memoirs which she entitled My Life - lay dormant for almost a century. Now the book's first-time-ever appearance in Russia is complemented by an unabridged and annotated English translation." "Tolstaya paints an intimate and honest portrait of her husband's character, setting forth new details about his life to which she alone was privy. She describes her extensive correspondence with many prominent figures in Russian and Western society, making My Life a unique account of late-19th- and early-20th-century Russia, with its cast of characters ranging from peasants to the Tsar himself. Her engaging narrative reveals not only her significant contributions to her husband's work but also her considerable talent as an author in her own right."--BOOK JACKET.
Tolstoy
Author: Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0151014388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but also against traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this exceptional biography, Bartlett delivers an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has been discovered by a new generation of readers.
One More Year
Author: Sana Krasikov
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0385524404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people–in search of love and prosperity–making their way in a world whose rules have changed.
The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
Author: Michael R. Katz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0300210396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy’s controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the first time is a fascinating and previously neglected constellation of counterstories written by the author’s wife and son in direct response to Tolstoy’s provocative tale, each a passionate attempt to undo the message of the original work. These radically conflicting tales, accompanied by excerpts from family letters, diaries, notes, and memoirs, provide readers with a vivid and highly revealing case study of the powerful disputes concerning sexuality and gender roles that erupted within the cultural context of late-nineteenth-century Russian, as well as European, society.
Joy Comes in the Morning
Author: Jonathan Rosen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1429956232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy, frailty, love, and, finally, hope.
City of Thieves
Author: David Benioff
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781410409263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour comes a captivating novel about war, courage, survival and a remarkable friendship. Stumped by a magazine assignment to write about his own uneventful life, a man visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. Reluctantly, his grandfather commences a story that will take almost a week to tell: an odyssey of two young men determined to survive.
