Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace , Anna Karenina , The Death of Ivan Ilyich , Family Happiness , and other classics of Russian literature. Klappentext The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot", the little tale that Prince Mirsky described as "a masterpiece of rare perfection." Zusammenfassung The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot", the little tale that Prince Mirsky described as "a masterpiece of rare perfection."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: L.n. Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Con la collaborazione di: Aylmer Maude (Traduzione), Louise Maude (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harper Collins Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.04.2004
• EAN: 9780060586973
• ISBN: 978-0-06-058697-3
• Pagine: 720
• Serie: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), RELIGION: Ancient, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Classics, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, FICTION: Gothic, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: LITERARY COLLECTIONS, RELIGION: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Russian & Former Soviet Union