Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II: Introduction by John BayleyThe only comprehensive hardcover edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction--57 stories and novellas, including two that have never before appeared in English. In these two handsome volumes, every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his belief in truth and simplicity, and above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from the short novels "Hadj Murad and "The Kreutzer Sonata to folktales only a few pages long, they bring us intimately into the world of the great Russian novelist. |
Contents
Two Old Men 1885 | 21 |
The Story of Iván the Fool 1885 | 63 |
Evil Allures but Good Endures | 97 |
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