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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 305257

ISBN: 0140441395

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Modern Library: August 2004

Seller ID: 414324

ISBN: 0345472403

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad "To read him . . . is to find one's way ho...
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Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession, The

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: LIVERIGHT:

Seller ID: 401053

ISBN: 0871404265

Condition: Used - Like New

In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January 2013. Carson, the eminent British publisher, editor, and translator who, in the words of his author Mary Beard, "had probably more influence on the literary landscape of England] over the past fifty years than any other single person," must have seen the irony of translating Ilyich, Tolstoy's profound meditation on death and loss, "but he pressed on regardless, apparently refusing to be distracted by the parallel of literature ...
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Cossacks (Modern Library Classics)

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: MODERN LIB: April 2017

Seller ID: 337902

ISBN: 0812975049

Condition: Used - Like New

This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy's semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While striving to adopt the rough and ready lifestyle of the local Cossacks, Olenin falls in love with a free-spirited girl whose fiance turns out to be a formidable opponent. Showcasing the philosophical insight that would characterize Tolstoy's later masterpieces, this long overdue translation is a revelation.
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Fables and Fairy Tales

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Signet: June 1962

Seller ID: 415126

ISBN: B000SEKMUG

Condition: Used - Good

Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $2.50

Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 130882

ISBN: 0451525086

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Like New

Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: PERENNIAL:

Seller ID: 257128

ISBN: 0060586974

Condition: Used - Good

The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one volume are his eight finest short novels, together with "Alyosha the Pot," the little tale that Prince Mirsky described as...
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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $8.00

Publisher: PERENNIAL:

Seller ID: 414818

ISBN: 0060586974

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

War and Peace

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS: January 2015

Seller ID: 412068

ISBN: 1400079985

Condition: Unknown

From the award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov" comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace""broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. A ...
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Three Questions

By: Tolstoy, Leo/Muth, Jon

Price: $6.00

Publisher: SCHOLASTIC BK SERVICES: June 2014

Seller ID: 40944

ISBN: 0439199964

Condition: Used - Like New

With his stunning watercolors -- and text that resounds with universal truths, award-winning artist Jon J Muth has transformed a story by Tolstoy into a timeless fable for young readers. What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Nikolai knows that he wants to be the best person he can be, but often he is unsure if he is doing the right thing. So he goes to ask Leo, the wise turtle. When he arrives, the turtle is struggling to dig in his garden, and Nikolai rushes to help him. As he finishes work, a violent storm rolls in. Nikolai runs...
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo