Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions)

Name: Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions)
Brand: Leo Tolstoy
SKU: 9781529410556
Price: 10.72 GBP
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by Leo Tolstoy

Title:

Author:

Leo Tolstoy

Series (if any):

riverrun editions

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

448 pages

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

ISBN-13:

9781529410556

EAN:

9781529410556

Publication Date:

17/03/2022

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

434

Dimensions (mm):

130 x 199 x 32

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£10.72

1 copies in stock

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Description

''How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy''s stories''Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other StoriesThis, the third volume of Tolstoy''s shorter fiction concentrates on his later stories, including one of his greatest, ''Hadji Murad''. In the stark form of homily that shapes these later works, life considered as one''s own has no rational meaning. From the chain of events that follows in the wake of two schoolboys'' deception in ''The Forged Coupon'' to the disillusionment of the narrator in ''After the Ball'' we see, in Virginia Woolf''s observation, that Tolstoy puts at the centre of his writingone ''who gathers into himself all experience, turns the world round between his fingers, and never ceases to ask, even as he enjoys it, what is the meaning of it''.The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.