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Anna Karenina: In 100 Sketches

Anna Karenina: In 100 Sketches

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Tolstoy's masterpiece, with cartoons. The first in the RatSoap series of graphic adaptations of classic novels---using minimalist drawings---in which rats represent the principal characters.
What is Art?

What is Art?

graf Leo Tolstoy

Maude's excellent translation of Tolstoy's treatise on the emotionalist theory of art was the first unexpurgated version of the work to appear in any languages.
Death and the Meaning of Life: Selected Writings of Leo Tolstoy

Death and the Meaning of Life: Selected Writings of Leo Tolstoy

graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy's beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life.
Childhood

Childhood

Leo Graf Tolstoy

In Childhood, Tolstoy recounts the innocent joys of his early life and the gradual progression toward a more cynical, mature adult view of the world -- a process that the author regards as tragic.
Path of Life

Path of Life

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Path of Life was the last book written by Lev Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

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Provides a compilation of five of the famous Russian author's short works, including "The Empty Drum" and "The Imp and the Crust."
Aleksey's Kingdom

Aleksey's Kingdom

John Wiltshire

When they become pawns in a conspiracy, Nikolai must unleash the unfettered savagery of his true nature to save Aleksey.
Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated

Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated

Leo Tolstoy

There is also a Tolstoy biography at the start of the book with photos of Tolstoy's relatives. The stories include: A Candle, After the Dance, Albert, Alyosha the Pot, An Old Acquaintance, Does a Man Need Much Land?
Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen

Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen

Ueli Dill

Fritz Graf, Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in vorhellenistischer Zeit ( Berlin 1974). Graf (1985). – Fritz Graf, Nordionische Kulte (Rome 1985). Graf ( 1996). – Fritz Graf, “Pompai in Greece. Some Considerations about Space and ...
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late ...

Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late ...

Leo Tolstoy

Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini's novel The Last Station: ...
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

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Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
Tolstoy

Tolstoy

Henri Troyat

" From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.
Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy ...

Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy ...

Alexandra Popoff

In1891, in a letterto Hamilton Campbell, aminister of the Free Church ofScotland, Tolstoy wrote that he had expressed his views on personal immortality in the last chapters of his book On Life: “I think that... the less welive our own personallife, ...
Tolstoy's Pacifism

Tolstoy's Pacifism

Colm McKeogh

This work of political science offers an account of Leo Tolstoy as a Christian thinker on political violence. It presents Tolstoy's pacifism as a striking case of the impact of religious idealism on political attitudes.
The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

Donna Tussing Orwin

Donna Tussing Orwin. LIZA KNAPP. The. development. of. style. and. theme. in. Tolstoy. Most literary critics divide Tolstoy's long and productive career into three periods, with the main one stretching from 1863, just after his marriage, when he  ...
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

graf Leo Tolstoy

It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian ...
Tolstoy: A Russian Life

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

Rosamund Bartlett

Praise for TOLSTOY "Rosamund Bartlett's new biography conveys Tolstoy to me more vividly than any biography I have read.
Tolstoy Studies Journal

Tolstoy Studies Journal

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Ed. Eric de Haard, Thomas Langerak, Willem G. Weststeijn. (Jan van der Eng Festschrift) Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Rice, James L. "The Dream Mechanism of Tolstoy's Confession." Tolstoy Studies Journal. VII (1994): 84-8. Saylor, Ian.
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold ...

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold ...

Fritz Graf

Graf, Fritz. Nordionische Kulte. Religionsgeschichtliche und epigraphische Untersuchungen zu den Kulten vonChios, Erythrai, Klazomenai und Phokaia. Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana21 (Rome:Schweizerisches Institut inRom, 1985). Graf ...

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