Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels and Novellas
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Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels and Novellas Details
Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication.- Childhood- Boyhood- Youth- Family Happiness- The Cossacks- War and Peace- Anna Karenina- The Death of Ivan Ilyich- The Kreutzer Sonata- Resurrection- The Forged Coupon- Hadji Murad
Reviews
There is no need to present or rate Tolstoy, and I won't. He's a giant, his oeuvre has not aged one bit, he is as important to world literature today as he was when his books were first published. For me, the top are War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but everyone is free to manifest preference for any other piece.I bought this collection to read a particular novella I had heard about: The Kreutzer Sonata. Scalfari, a leading figure in Italian journalism, had written a critique about it that had me intrigued. And I'm glad I found the novella in this collection, it happens to be a well-constructed digital format, easy to use so you can get with a click from the table of contents to whatever piece you want to read. And it certainly is priced at an attractive level, less than the cost of a coffee!As to the Kreutzer Sonata, what can I say? Absolutely well worth the read. It's not what Scalfari was saying about it and I'm glad I read it, it helped, to my mind, clarify Scalfari's mistaken notions, but that's a long story I won't get into here. The Sonata is definitely and excellent piece of vintage Tolstoy. And Tolstoy, when he wrote it, must have had a gigantic fight with his wife, the piece displays an extraordinary mixture of misogyny and admiration for women - but then, we all know he had a difficult relationship with his wife, in his old age, he ran away from her and rode several days on trains across Russia until he died in a distant train station...