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Childhood/Boyhood/Youth
Translated with an Introduction by
Rosemary Edmonds
These sketches, a mixture of fact and
fiction, provide an expressive self-portrait
of the young Tolstoy and hints of the man
and writer he would become.
320 pp. 978-0-14-044139-0 $16.00
A Confession and
Other Religious Writings
Translated with an Introduction by
Jane Kentish
Tolstoy’s passionate and iconoclastic
writings—on issues of faith, immortality,
freedom, violence, and morality—reflect
his intellectual search for truth and
a religion firmly grounded in reality.
The selection includes “A Confession,”
“Religion and Morality,” “What Is
Religion, and of What Does Its Essence
Consist?,” and “The Law of Love and the
Law of Violence.”
240 pp. 978-0-14-044473-5 $14.00
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Stories of Sevastapol; The Cossacks,
Hadji Murat
Translated with Notes by David McDuff
and Paul Foote
Introduction by Paul Foote
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy
joined the Russian army. The four years
he spent as a soldier were among the most
significant in his life and inspired these
brilliant, powerful stories about the nature
of war.
480 pp. 978-0-14-044959-4 $18.00
*The Death of Ivan Ilyich and
Other Stories
Translated and Edited by Anthony Briggs,
Ronald Wilks, and David McDuff
Introduction by Anthony Briggs
Here are some of Tolstoy’s extraordinary
short stories, from “The Death of Ivan
Ilyich”—in a masterly new translation—to
“The Raid,” “The Wood-felling,” “Three
Deaths,” “Polikushka,” “After the Ball,”
and “The Forged Coupon,” all gripping
and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy’s
most persistent themes: life and death.
352 pp. 978-0-14-044961-7 $11.00
leo tolstoy
Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in the
Tula province of Russia. As a young man, he studied Oriental languages and
law at the University of Kazan. After he completed his schooling, Tolstoy fought
in the Crimean war while writing The Sebastopol Sketches, which established his
reputation. In 1862, he married Sophie Andreyevna Behrs and the next fifteen
years proved to be a period of great happiness; they had thirteen children and
Tolstoy managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and, in 1868, completed
War and Peace, following that work with Anna Karenina in 1876. A Confession,
finished in 1882, marked an outward change in his life and works; he became an
extreme rationalist and moralist, and in a series of pamphlets he expressed his
doctrines such as inner self-perfection, rejection of institutions, indictment of the
demands of the flesh, and denunciation of private property. His teaching earned
him numerous followers in Russia and abroad, but also much opposition. In 1901,
Tolstoy was excommunicated by the Russian holy synod. He died in 1910, in the
course of a dramatic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.
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