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Pearson / —
Anna Karenina, one of world literature’s greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls in love with a handsome young soldier, life suddenly seems wonderful. But real happiness is not so easily found …
ISBN: 9781405865296
мягкая обложка, 120 стр.
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Random House USA / —
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, «Anna Karenina» portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin’s struggles echo Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis. But Anna’s inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In «Anna Karenina» Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul.
ISBN: 9780553213461
мягкая обложка, 896 стр.
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Oxford University Press / Oxford World’s Classics
In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, «War and Peace» is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture’, as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation’.
Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy’s important essay `Some Words about War and Peace ‘.
ISBN: 9780199536054
мягкая обложка, 1392 стр.
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Random House USA / —
This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy’s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifestyle of the local Cossacks, Olenin falls in love with a free-spirited girl whose fiance turns out to be a formidable opponent. Showcasing the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy’s later masterpieces, this long overdue translation is a revelation.
ISBN: 9780812975048
мягкая обложка, 192 стр.
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Random House USA / —
Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, «Childhood», the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy’s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the “poetry” of childhood — the intense emotions, confusions, and fears attendant upon a young boy, Nikolenka, as he grows up. In the years following, «Boyhood» and «Youth» appeared (a fourth volume was planned but never executed), each replete with psychological and philosophical subtleties hitherto unknown in Russian literature. In Scammell’s resplendent translation, «Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth» remains one of Tolstoy’s major works.
ISBN: 9780375759444
мягкая обложка, 464 стр.
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Random House USA / —
The monumental novel considered one of the greatest ever written is an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
ISBN: 9780345472403
мягкая обложка, 1424 стр.
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Random House USA / —
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, «The Kreutzer Sonata» illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.
In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant «The Kreutzer Sonata» is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s «Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata».
ISBN: 9780812968231
мягкая обложка, 128 стр.
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Random House USA / —
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.
This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
ISBN: 9780375760990
мягкая обложка, 160 стр.
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Oxford University Press / Oxford World’s Classics
This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy’s creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina». Stories as different as ‘The Snowstorm’, ‘Lucerne’, ‘The Diary of a Madman’, and ‘The Devil’ are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy’s works of criticism and philosophy. ‘Strider’ and ‘Father Sergy’, as well as reflecting Tolstoy’s own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights.
These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy’s skill and artistry.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955399-0
мягкая обложка, 336 стр.
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