The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff, Paul Foote, Donna Orwin A collection of love stories that include: "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that jis readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their loved ones; they have lusted vigorously; or desperately sought the approval and even worship of others - Tolstoy depends on our own memories to entagle us in his tragic stories. Notes 2 collections of classic Tolstoy short stories, each with an introduction by prominent literary scholars. The stories cover themes of death, dying, love, sex and violence. Author Biography Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana. He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. Among his best known novels are War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In 1910 at the age of eighty-two he fled from home leaving this worldly life in order to live out my last days in peace and solitude; dying some days later at the station masters house at Astapovo.Donna Tussing Orwin, who teaches Russian Literature at the University of Toronto, was Editor of Tolstoy Studies Journal from 1997-2004, and is now President of the North American Tolstoy Society. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy (2002) and is currently editing a collection of newly commissioned essays about Tolstoy to be published in Russia in 2010 by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Long Description Our ambitious program of new Tolstoy editions continues with two collections of powerful stories The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoyas life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and startling collection. They portray the multifaceted nature of desire, from idealistic romance to sexual jealousy, from desperate lust to relentless longing. aThe K reutzer Sonataa caused a public sensation with its indictment of so-called Christian marriage, a theme echoed in aFamily Happiness.a In aThe Devil, a a young man finds it impossible to resist a beautiful peasant woman with whom he had an affair before his marriage. And aFather Sergiusa shows a man going to increasingly desperate ends in order to avoid the temptations of the flesh. Details ISBN0140449604 Short Title KREUTZER SONATA & OTHER STORIE Series Penguin Classics Language English Translator Paul Foote ISBN-10 0140449604 ISBN-13 9780140449600 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Edited by Paul Foote Tag pengblackclassics Birth 1945 Translated from Russian DOI 10.1604/9780140449600 UK Release Date 2008-02-28 Author Donna Orwin Pages 352 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date 2008-02-28 Alternative 9780141907550 DEWEY 891.733 Audience General NZ Release Date 2008-04-16 AU Release Date 2008-04-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:3887420;

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