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Author : R. F. Christian
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Tolstoy a Critical Introduction written by R. F. Christian and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrei Zorin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142563
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Andrei Zorin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous courtship to a deep spiritual crisis and an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. He also made several attempts to break up with literature, but each time he returned to writing. In this original and comprehensive biography, Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together the life of one of the greatest novelists of all time. He offers both an innovative account of Tolstoy’s deepest feelings, emotions, and motives, as reflected in his personal diaries and letters, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including his celebrated novels on contemporary Russian society, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and his significant philosophical writings.
Author : Liza Knapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192543547
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction written by Liza Knapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred, or tolerated injustice and violence in any form. Yet among literary critics and rival writers, it has become a commonplace to disparage Tolstoy's " while praising his " In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy's work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, she analyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy's art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy's work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Brett Cooke
Publisher : Salem PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781619253933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)
Download or read book War and Peace written by Brett Cooke and published by Salem PressInc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy's epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. This volume examines Tolstoy's unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the text, including historical fiction, war drama, romance and realism.
Author : Rachel Stauffer
Publisher : Salem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682176115
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Rachel Stauffer and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will consider various and lesser known works by Tolstoy in addition to Anna Karenina and War and Peace with attention to the fundamentals of Tolstoy's biography, personal philosophy, and his sustained legacy in the Russian literary canon.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810138050
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book On Life written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1886, shortly before his fifty-eighth birthday, Leo Tolstoy was seriously injured while working in the fields of his estate. Bedridden for over two months, Tolstoy began writing a meditation on death and dying that soon developed into a philosophical treatise on life, death, love, and the overcoming of pessimism. Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, the final work, On Life, describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality. After its completion, On Life was suppressed by the tsars, attacked by the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, and then censored by the Stalinist regime. This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language. It includes a detailed introduction and annotations, as well as historical material, such as early drafts, documents related to the presentation of an early version at the Moscow Psychological Society, and responses to the work by philosophers, religious leaders, journalists, and ordinary readers of Tolstoy's day.
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 : Edward Wasiolek
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Tolstoy written by Edward Wasiolek and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Henry Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reginald F. Christian
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571272754
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' written by Reginald F. Christian and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With typically disarming modesty, the author, Professor Reginald Christian, writes in his preface, 'This is a book about a book, and as such it is doubtful it would meet with Tolstoy's approval if he were alive today. He goes on to say however, 'And yet people will continue to write about Tolstoy, as they continue to write about Shakespeare. The purpose of this book is in the first place to acquaint the English reader with material which will facilitate an understanding of the process of writing War and Peace - material which for the most part has not been translated into English, and which is not always obtainable in Russian: draft version of the novel, Tolstoy's diaries, notebooks and letters, the historical and biographical sources he used, and the secondary critical literature about the novel. In the second place I have attempted to consider certain aspects of the finished work - structural, linguistic, and ideological - and to offer very briefly some possible lines of approach to Tolstoy's art as a novelist.' There are six chapters: The Evolution of the Novel, Use of Sources, Idea and Genre, Structure and Composition, Language, Characterization. War and Peace is arguably the greatest novel ever written. If any novel deserves this sort of critical anatomy it is War and Peace especially when written by one of the greatest Tolstoy scholars of the last one hundred years.
Author : Malcolm Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521169219
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (692 download)
Download or read book New Essays on Tolstoy written by Malcolm Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on Tolstoy's writing, thinking and translation problems to commemorate his 150th year of his birth.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113285
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the Russian author.
Author : Henry Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844644196
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Henry Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Wasiolek
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226873986
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy's Major Fiction written by Edward Wasiolek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Wasiolek, after much valuable work on Dostoevsky, has now written one of the best books on Tolstoy in recent decades. This may be in part because of his preoccupation with Tolstoy's most challenging contemporary, and the resulting sense of their unlikeness in a common pursuit. But there are other, unspeculative reasons. Few studies of Tolstoy have been so carefully pondered and so firmly organized to convince; and not so many show the flexibility and variety of its approach. Wasiolek proposes an essentially simple and consistent reading, but he advances it with subtlety and discretion."—Henry Gifford, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986731102
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Tolstoy on Shakespeare a Critical Essay on Shakespeare written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 - 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
Author : Ralph E. Matlaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tolstoy written by Ralph E. Matlaw and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
