By Leo Tolstoy
Including:
* ALL 12 novels with specialist formatting
* Plus the infrequent unfinished novel 'The Decembrists' which Tolstoy meant to be a sequel to the nice 'War and Peace'
* Plus the opposite infrequent unfinished novel 'Morning of a Landed Proprietor'
* short yet informative introductions to the entire novels
* appealing pictures in terms of Tolstoy's existence and works in the course of the eBook
* all of the brief tales which were translated into English
* includes a bonus collection of non-fiction texts, together with Tolstoy's Journal
* all the plays
* precise major personality pages for 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' to help analyzing those huge novels
* more suitable translations of the fast tales, based on a consumer review
* comprises contents tables for every novel and play, permitting effortless navigation round the mammoth file
* up to date with a different literary feedback part, with nine assorted essays analyzing Tolstoy's contribution to literature, with works by way of writers resembling Virginia Woolf and William Lyon Phelps
* up-to-date with BONUS texts of 2 biographies on Tolstoy, via his spouse and son
* up to date with the infrequent play dwell CORPSE, unpublished in Tolstoy's lifetime
Believed through many to be the best novelist the area has identified, the Russian Master's paintings is of paramount value. This definitive variation of Tolstoy's oeuvre has each translated novel, brief tale, novella and play written via Leo Tolstoy. one among our preferred eBooks - you can now personal the good grasp of Realist fiction.
There can be a entrance no-nonsense contents desk, permitting effortless navigation round the huge, immense dossier. as with any Delphi Classics, the texts are prepared in chronological order, permitting a scholarly analyzing and appreciation of Tolstoy's works.
Please notice: an absolute 'complete works' of Tolstoy isn't attainable in English because of copyright regulations on numerous translations and a few texts no longer being translated into English but. besides the fact that, this book strives to offer shoppers the main texts attainable and comprises all the significant works. As an advantage, a variety of non-fiction texts can be found too.
Contents
The Novels and Novellas
CHILDHOOD
BOYHOOD
YOUTH
FAMILY HAPPINESS
THE COSSACKS
WAR AND PEACE
ANNA KARENINA
THE loss of life OF IVAN ILYCH
THE KREUTZER SONATA.
RESURRECTION
THE cast COUPON
HADJI MURAD
The Unfinished Novels
THE DECEMBRISTS
A MORNING OF A LANDED PROPRIETOR
The brief Stories
LIST of reports IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST of news IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Plays
THE strength OF DARKNESS
THE culmination OF CULTURE
REDEMPTION
THE explanation for IT ALL
THE FIRST DISTILLER
THE gentle SHINES IN DARKNESS
LIVE CORPSE
Selected Non-Fiction
A CONFESSION
KINGDOM OF GOD IS inside YOU
WHAT THEN needs to WE DO?
ON the importance OF technological know-how AND ART
BETHINK YOURSELVES!
MOSCOW CENSUS
TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE
TOLSTOY’S JOURNAL
The Criticism
TOLSTOY THE ARTIST by means of Ivan Panin
TOLSTOY THE PREACHER via Ivan Panin
Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ via William Dean Howells
Extract from ‘ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS’ by means of William Lyon Phelps
RUSSIAN ROMANCE through Earl of Evelyn Baring Cromer
Extracts from ‘A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE’ by means of Isabel Florence Hapgood
Extract from ‘AN define OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE’ by means of Maurice Baring
THE RUSSIAN standpoint by way of Virginia Woolf
Extract from ‘PROPHETS OF DISSENT’ by way of Otto Heller
The Biographies
REMINISCENCES OF TOLSTOY via Ilya Tolstoy
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COUNTESS TOLSTOY
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