The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (The World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192832352 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-04 |
| Language | : | Russian |
DESCRIPTION:
Richard Gustafson is Professor of Russian at Barnard College, Columbia University and a specialist in Russian literature and religious philosophy. He is the author of Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger (1986).
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Russian
Olina H. said love it.. classik macterpiece. love it.. Three stories of despair frumiousb The highlight of this book for me had to be re-reading "The Death of Ivan Ilych" again after all these years. I read it for the first time years and years ago as required reading in middle school and this is the first time that I have come back to it since that time. I found myself unsurprisingly better equipped to read and appreciate this story now and was exceptionally pleased to have read it again.This edition contains three short stories that were written after Tolstoy made his conversion to intense. Story great, edition not Just returned from Book Discussion Group. Found Dover translation to be far inferior to Penguin Classic.
The explanatory notes and substantial introduction use the most recent scholarship in the field to further illuminate Tolstoy's works of shorter fiction.. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except for Family Happiness, translated by J.D. While the Afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata appears for the first time in English with the story. These four novellas--Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad--each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. Huff), modernized and corrected against modern Russian editions to create this English language version