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Death and the Meaning of Life: Selected Writings of Leo Tolstoy
graf Leo TolstoyPresents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy's beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life.
Leo Tolstoy
graf Leo TolstoyProvides a compilation of five of the famous Russian author's short works, including "The Empty Drum" and "The Imp and the Crust."
What is Art?
graf Leo TolstoyMaude'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.
Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated
Leo TolstoyThere 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?
Childhood
Leo Graf TolstoyIn 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.
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late ...
Leo TolstoyJay 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
graf Leo TolstoyPresents 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.
The Forged Coupon: And Other Stories
Leo TolstoySometimes even the smallest and most seemingly trivial actions can have the most disastrous consequences. That's the idea that Russian literary master Leo Tolstoy explores in depth in the title tale in this collection, "The Forged Coupon.
Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy ...
Alexandra PopoffIn1891, 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
Colm McKeoghThis 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.
Anna Karenina
graf Leo TolstoyIt 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 ...
A Prisoner in the Caucasus
Leo Tolstoy"A Prisoner in the Caucasus" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1870.
Anna Karenina: In 100 Sketches
Leo Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy'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.
War and Peace:
Leo TolstoyThe most famous and perhaps greatest novel of all time, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' tells the story of five families struggling for survival during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Harold BloomSelections of literary criticism on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative
Justin WeirEric de Haard has usefully treated many of the ways Tolstoy defeats expectations in his early work as examples of “antinarrative structures.” Especially relevant is de Haard's adaptation of L0tman's concept of the “minus device,” which, ...
Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen
Ueli DillFritz 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 ...
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