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Publisher: Harper Perennial

Author: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780060586973

Year: 2004

Format: Paperback

Short stories, Classics

Great Short Works by
Leo Tolstoy

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$ 350.00 mxn

Great Short Works by

Leo Tolstoy

Summary

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."

The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Cossacks, Family Happiness, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Master and Man, Father Sergius, Haji Murad, Alyosha the Pot

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville