LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy
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Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
- ASIN: 1400077869
- ISBN: 1400077869
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rule... [Read More]
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Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels and Novellas (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 12)
- ASIN: B01IMMB2OK
- Manufacturer: Book House Publishing
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC t... [Read More]
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Leo Tolstoy: The Best Works
- ASIN: B0792DK9SP
- Manufacturer: Pandora's Box
This ebook compiles Leo Tolstoy's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and essays such as "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "A Confession", "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of content... [Read More]
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The Kingdom of God is Within You
- ASIN: 1537188488
- ISBN: 1537188488
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" is Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus of philosophy and religious thought. The book is cited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the chief influences in the development of his philosophy of non-violence. Tolstoy takes the reader to the heart of the message of Jesus Christ, laying aside the common dogmas of the church in favor of a... [Read More]
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
- ASIN: B005ENZ5I0
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
- ASIN: 0812998308
- ISBN: 0812998308
- Brand: Random House Inc
- Manufacturer: Random House
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King.“I have tried, as far as possible using the... [Read More]
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What Is Art? (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140446427
- ISBN: 9780140446425
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art must be a fo... [Read More]
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Confession
- ASIN: 0393314758
- ISBN: 0393314758
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140444734
- ISBN: 9780140444735
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession,' 'Religion and Morality,' 'What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?,' and 'The Law of Love and the... [Read More]
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War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
- ASIN: 1400079985
- ISBN: 1400079985
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters... [Read More]
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Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi (New York Review Books Classics)
- ASIN: 159017996X
- ISBN: 159017996X
- Brand: New York Review of Books
- Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforge... [Read More]
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
- ASIN: 0061253170
- ISBN: 9780061253171
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are reveal... [Read More]
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War and Peace: Tie-In Edition to Major New BBC Dramatisation
- ASIN: 184990846X
- ISBN: 9781849908467
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: BBC Books
Tolstoy’s beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Following the rise and fall of some of society’s most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever.
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20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......
- ASIN: B07QJZL97H
- Manufacturer: Athenaeum Classics
This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Anonymous: “Beowulf”Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan”Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita”Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars”Burroughs, Edgar Ric... [Read More]
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Nikolai Gogol: The Best Works
- ASIN: B0792JRCD3
- Manufacturer: Pandora's Box
This ebook compiles Nikolai Gogol's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and plays such as "Taras Bulba", "Dead Souls", "The Nose", "The Viy", "The Government Inspector" and "The Overcoat".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginnin... [Read More]
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (All the novels and stories in one volume)
- ASIN: B079C4J9JK
- Manufacturer: Hash Books
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics)
- ASIN: 1590171993
- ISBN: 1590171993
- Brand: John Williams
- Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English lite... [Read More]
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What We See When We Read
- ASIN: 0804171637
- ISBN: 0804171637
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the YearA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Kareni... [Read More]
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
- ASIN: 0307474798
- ISBN: 0307474798
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma’s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi’s struggle to deliver India from British rule, t... [Read More]
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
- ASIN: 0300222785
- ISBN: 0300222785
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumou... [Read More]
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