On Life A Critical Edition

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy (1828 –1910) is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and philosophical essays and is perhaps best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Inessa Medzhibovskaya is an associate professor of liberal studies and literary studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Michael Denner is a professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Stetson University and the editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. Klappentext Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, Tolstoy's On Life describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality. his critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English. Zusammenfassung Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, Tolstoy’s On Life describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality. his critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy
• Assisted by: Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Editor), Michael A. Denner (Translation), Michael a Denner (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.11.2018
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780810138032
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-3803-2
• Pages: 264
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, HISTORY / World, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet