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Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy, born in 1828 to a noble family some eighty miles south of Moscow, fought in the Crimean War before deciding against a military career in 1856 and turning to writing. He married Sofia Andreyevna Bers in 1862 and they had thirteen children, only eight of whom grew to adulthood. He produced his most famous works, "War and Peace "and "Anna Karenina," between 1864 and 1876. After years of an increasingly unhappy marriage, Tolstoy left his wife and home in 1910 at the age of eighty-two and died at a local railway station. Louise Maude, born in Moscow in 1855 to an English family, was a translator of many of Leo Tolstoy's writings. Her husband, Aylmer Maude, born in England in 1858, moved to Moscow as a teenager and met Tolstoy in 1888. Later the Maudes settled in England and continued to translate and promote the works of Tolstoy. Richard F. Gustafson, professor emeritus of Russian at Barnard College, Columbia University, is the author of "Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger." Klappentext A small gem from Leo Tolstoy, this poignantly profound tale from the viewpoint of an old horse comments on such perennially human concerns as prejudice, fortune, and morality. Zusammenfassung Known worldwide for his masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy takes a less dramatic but no less poignant approach in Strider: The Story of a Horse. Told from Strider's own aged, equine perspective, the tale nonetheless addresses such perennial human concerns as prejudice, fortune, and mortality.
