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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Salem House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Landowner's Morning ; Family Happiness ; And, The Devil written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714546003
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Three Novellas written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tolstoy's last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny's irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his urges.In some ways comparable to the controversial Kreutzer Sonata, The Devil shows Tolstoy at his most salacious, and addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy's earliest works, an entertaining and cynical account of marriage from the perspective of a disillusioned wife, and A Landowner's Morning.
Author : Andrea Dworkin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458723763
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Intercourse written by Andrea Dworkin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercourse is a book that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission. It moves in descending circles, not in a straight line, and as in a vortex each spiral goes down deeper. Its formal model is Dante's Inferno; its lyrical debt is to Rimbaud; the equality it envisions is rooted in the dreams of women, silent generations, pioneer voices, lone rebels, and masses who agitated, demanded, cried out, broke laws, and even begged. The begging was a substitute for retaliatory violence: doing bodily harm back to those who use or injure you. I want women to be done with begging. The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women's words - speaking and writing - as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women's words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men - control, violence, insult, contempt - that no threat seems empty. Intercourse does not say, forgive me and love me. It does not say, I forgive you, I love you. For a woman writer to thrive (or, arguably, to survive) in these current hard times, forgiveness and love must be subtext. No. I say no. Intercourse is search and assertion, passion and fury; and its form - no less than its content - deserves critical scrutiny and respect.---- PREFACE.
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458723844
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Intercourse (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Dworkin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458723747
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Intercourse (EasyRead Comfort Edition) written by Andrea Dworkin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men.-Back cover.
Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466862890
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Natasha's Dance written by Orlando Figes and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together. Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg--a "window on the West"--and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.
Author : Naim Attallah
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fulfilment and Betrayal, 1975-1995 written by Naim Attallah and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fulfilment and Betrayal' charts Naim Attallah's years of achievement and the pitfalls put in his way by those envious of his ambitions. From being an immigrant who had to take a series of labouring jobs he rose to become the CEO of the luxury goods group Asprey, publisher, impressario, film producer and man about town.
Author : Carol Ueland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793618305
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia written by Carol Ueland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures in the series is a case study for continuities and changes in Russian national identity over time. Biography in Russia and elsewhere remains a most influential literary genre and the distinctive approach and branding of the series has made it the economic engine of its publisher, Molodaia gvardiia. The centrality of biographies of major literary figures in the series reflects their heightened importance in Russian culture. The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Granta written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847491251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Three Novellas written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606138
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Devil and Other Stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy', as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : David R. Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by David R. Egan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quarter-century update of Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1978, authors David and Melinda Egan list the more than 1,200 books, essays, articles and doctoral dissertations written about the great Russian author from 1977 to 2003. The book provides a comprehensive list of English language studies of Tolstoy's life, art, thought and influence, by addressing his novels, the major components of his non-literary life, and his legacy to the world.
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Granta written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545878
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726605309
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)
Download or read book A Landlord's Morning written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You always wished to appear original (...) but your originality is really nothing but excessive self-esteem." Nineteen-year-old Nekhlyudov writes to his aunt that he has given up his university studies and devoted himself entirely to the affairs of his estate. High on his own idealistic plan, he tells her that it is his sacred duty to improve the conditions for the hundreds of peasants working for him, and that he will devote his life to their happiness. Save to say, his aunt is not impressed by his plans and, as it turns out, it is all a lot easier said than done. A Landlord’s Morning is based on Tolstoy’s own experiences as a young man hoping to find happiness by doing good. An idea that never left him and which he revisited in Anna Karenina 20 years later through the character of Levin. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include "War and Peace" (1865–69) and "Anna Karenina" (1875–77), two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacles of realist fiction. Beyond novels, he wrote many short stories and later in life also essays and plays.
Author : Ernest Joseph Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766888X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy written by Ernest Joseph Simmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views on the social, moral and religious issues of his time is not so widely recognised. This study, first published in 1973, presents an introduction to the historical and cultural background of Tolstoy’s lifetime, then going on to consider the major events of his developing personality as a writer and reformer. As well as considering the famous novels and literary criticism, Simmons treats his educational theories and practice, famine relief work, spiritual crises and religious, social and moral beliefs, as reflected in controversial writings such as What I Believe, What Then Must We Do? and The Kingdom of God Is Within You. He also investigates Tolstoy’s involvement in government, war and revolution, and the relevance of his reformist views in the contemporary world.
