Publisher |
Harper Perennial |
Publication Year |
2004 |
ISBN-13 |
9780060586973 |
ISBN-10 |
0060586974 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
720 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
544 |
The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design.
Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot", the little tale that Prince Mirsky described as "a masterpiece of rare perfection
Leo Tolstoy
“LOVE IS LIFE. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
Leo Tolstoy
Harper Perennial