books by Leo Tolstoy     books:       Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)11 reviews Leo Tolstoy Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004 Best single volume of the short fiction I prefer the Everyman's volumes because the typesetting is so much nicer. The present volume is a trade-sized paperback with the text simply photo-enlarged from the original mass-market edition. Both volumes use the Maudes' translations, but the Everyman's includes a great many more stories, including the Sevastopol Sketches. On the other hand, Everyman's publishes The Cossacks as a third ...             The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)74 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2008 Wonderful Tolstoy's brief novella 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' is one of the most compact and brilliant meditations on the meaning of death in literature. Tolstoy's breathtaking naturalism is truly miraculous. Ivan Ilyich is respectful administrator who is dying a painful death from a malignant tumor. Much as Kafka would later do in 'The Metamorphosis,' the dying man's suffering is nothing more than an annoyance ...             War And Peace (Signet Classics)285 reviews Leo Tolstoy Signet Classics, 2007 Maudes at Home with Tolstoy The Maudes translated WAR AND PEACE in Tolstoy's house, consulting with him. They did a nice, thorough and very readable job. Meanwhile Tolstoy deliberately wrote in a simple, easy way to reach more readers. So while the Pevear translation may be slightly better (scholars have examined this work for more than a century and picked up translation errors here and there) or slightly worse, you really ...             War and Peace (Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition)11 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2006 Paperback Building Block A new translation by Anthony Briggs, introduction by Orlando Figes. I chose this translation based on the strength of the Penguin Classics imprint, the readable size of the print, and the back-cover blurps promising a new and accessible translation. Overall, the translation read very well, although I agree with two negative comments I read on internet blogs about the translation: 1). The ...             Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, Spirit, and Living a Good Life11 reviews Leo Tolstoy Arcade Publishing, 2005 Wisdom that changes its reader I had the fortunate job of proof reading and minor editing of this book, for translater Peter Sekerin. As I spent the many hours doing so, I found that Tolstoy's thoughts and wisdom, as you continue to read him over and over, almost permeates your thoguhts and come to mind as you go through out your day. He was a very wise and learned man, but also a very practical one. This project in its ...             Anna Karenina1 review Neeland Media LLC, 2004 The Kindle edition is NOT the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation For those of you that have a Kindle and are wanting to purchase the new Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of this wonderful novel, DO NOT download this edition, no matter what the synopsis says. I downloaded the sample on my Kindle and compared it to the print edition and found that they were completely different.             Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)171 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2004 A deeply human book that repays many re-readings Why on earth would anyone bother to write another review of so famous and exhaustively-studied a book as "Anna Karenina"? The world has changed immensely since the book was written in the late 19th century. Reviews have probably also changed over the years, reflecting the times in which they were written - and the changing nature of reviews themselves. In fact, it would be an interesting ...             The Kingdom of God is Within You36 reviews Leo Tolstoy Wildside Press, 2007 An Essential Text for All Those Interested in Peace Studies I'm not a theist myself, but this is the book that I would want all theists to read because I sympathize with Tolstoy's views (insofar as I am quite fond of pacifism). Tolstoy, as I understand, is thought of as something of a maverick amongst the Christian community because of his 'extreme' interpretation of the New Testament. What this amounts to is: (a) Political anarchism - he believes in a ...             War and Peace60 reviews Leo Tolstoy Knopf, 2007 How to Read War and Peace, and Enjoy It Completely War and Peace is, without question, the greatest historical novel ever written. However, if you carry a copy of War and Peace with you anywhere, you will be subjected to ridicule of many varieties. This, of course, says more about the critics than the reader. It tells us first that most people have largely lived their lives deprived of reading one of the most "need to read" books in Western ...             Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)238 reviews Leo Tolstoy Signet Classics, 2002 both timeless and of its era Many themes of Anna Karenina are timeless: marriage, infidelity, the roles of men and women, personal fulfillment, honor, spirituality, and naturalism. If that isn't enough, then Tolstoy offers an 18th-century look at Russian society and culture, still well before the run-up to the revolution. Don't look to Tolstoy for enlightened feminism, although one of the characters argues for education and ...             Family Happiness and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)2 reviews Leo Tolstoy Dover Publications, 2005 Excellent bite-sized Tolstoy I'd never read Tolstoy because I was always intimidated by the size of his major works; thus, a collection of his short stories was an appealing first step. "Family Happiness" is the primary work in this book. In it, Tolstoy opines on what makes a successful marriage. I was amazed by how prescient to today was his 19th century relationship advice. Because he grasps universal and eternal ...             Hadji Murad21 reviews Leo Tolstoy FQ Classics, 2008 One of the greatest novellas ever written Certainly, the life and death of Hadji Murad left trenchant impression on young Tolstoy. So much so that Tolstoy wrote this novella few years before he died, and obviously did not intend to publish it. However fortunately it was published against his wish and it turned out to be the one of the most sublime novellas ever. The plot is based on what Tolstoy personally heard about legendary Hadji ...             The Cossacks and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)8 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 2007 "As one needs nothing oneself, why not live for others?": Olenin's epiphany In the middle of _The Cossacks_, Dmitri Olenin, a young Russian cadet reflects joyfully, "Happiness is to live for others. How clear it is!," while being mercilessly bitten by mosquitos during a deer hunt. Despite the fact that his "whole body [is] consumed by a consuming itch," Olenin revels in the beauties of bountiful nature. It is almost as if he gives himself up to the mosquitos, whom he ...             The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)2 reviews Leo Tolstoy Wordsworth Editions, 2004 Catastrophic These stories give an excellent view of Tolstoy's vision on the real nature of man, his place in our world, on sex, marriage and women, on man's ultimate destiny and on morals. For Tolstoy, man as a species is barely more than an animal incapable of controlling his `animal passion'. More, `it is perhaps better that people should be pure animals, then they would not suffer from death and ...             War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)38 reviews Leo Tolstoy Modern Library, 2002 Magnificent Achievement "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how ...             The Death of Ivan Ilych7 reviews Leo Tolstoy Waking Lion Press, 2006 "Death is over ... there is no more death." Tolstoy's short novel starts with the aftermath of Ivan Ilych's death. His colleagues gather to execute the polite formalities before moving on with relief to their regular whist game. "Well isn't that something--he's dead, but I'm not." Ivan Ilych is a self-satisfied high court judge who injured himself in a fall, and later fell ill with a vaguely diagnosed disturbance of his organs. At ...             A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts21 reviews Leo Tolstoy Scribner, 1997 Prophetic Immediately upon purchasing this book, I ordered another and sent it to my cousin who subsequently purchased 3, one for her husband who had opened the one I sent to her and begun highlighting passages and the other 2 she gave to her children who are in college. I know that Tolstoy viewed this as one of his greatest accomplishments in life and read from it every day. I read it cover to cover in ...             Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales12 reviews Leo Tolstoy Orbis Books, 2003 Master of short stories This book belonged to my father and he used to tell me stories from it when I was small. All parents should try to read this to their children - I remember being both mesmerised and confused by the stories : mesmerised because of their simplicity and flow, and confused because they led to deeper questions on society,humanity and God. Even if you are agnostic, you can read it for its human and ...             Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition)2 reviews Leo Tolstoy Dover Publications, 2004 Anna, sweet Anna "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." That line opens and sets the tone of "Anna Karenina," a tangled and tragic tale of nineteenth century Russia. Tolstoy's story of lovers and family is interlaced with razor-sharp social commentary and odd moments that are almost transcendent. In other words, this is a masterpiece. When Stepan Oblonsky has an ...             The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)7 reviews Leo Tolstoy Dover Publications, 1993 Classic and Simple... I purchased this book of short stories due to it's reference in Into the Wild and it helped me better connect with the main character. "How much land does a man need?", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", and "The Kreutzer Sonata" are the three stories included and Sonata was by far my favorite. It allows you do identify with the struggles that are occurring in the story.              search for books calendar, classics, cossacks, deluxe, edition, editions, family, happiness, ilyich, karenina, kingdom, kreutzer, library, modern, nourish, penguin, perennial, sacred, selected, sonata, stories, thoughts, thrift, tolstoy, twenty, twenty-three, wisdom, within, wordsworth, written books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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