Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Aylmer Maude (Translator), Louise Maude (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Aylmer Maude (Translator), Louise Maude (Translator), Leo Tolstoy (Author), John Bayley (Introduction), John Oliver Bayley (Introduction)

Synopsis

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. It also includes several short fables which point to his later preoccupation with the religious life.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 26 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 1857157575
ISBN 13: 9781857157574

Author Bio
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.