Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Tolstoy, Leo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593080697 ISBN 13 : 9781593080693

Editeur : Barnes & Noble Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910.

Hugh McLean has published widely on Russian literature.

Regina Marler is the author of Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom and editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell. She also writes for the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times. Marler lives in San Francisco.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Barnes & Noble Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1593080697
• ISBN 13: 9781593080693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400