Last Steps The Late Writings Of Leo Tolstoy

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959541
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini's novel The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141397740
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Much Land Does a Man Need? written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parable of a Russian peasant's bargain with the devil - considered by James Joyce to be the world's greatest story.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141397756
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Much Land Does A Man Need? written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847673945
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Station written by Jay Parini and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-08-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while outside over one hundred newspapermen are awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Narrated in six different voices, including Tolstoy's own from his diaries and literary works, The Last Station is a richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction.

Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641423X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bond of the Furthest Apart written by Sharon Cameron and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson’s cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The “bond” of Sharon Cameron’s title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson’s films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson’s in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson’s efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky’s subversions of Christian conventions, Tolstoy’s incompatible beliefs about death, or Kafka’s focus on creatures neither human nor animal, Cameron illuminates how the repeated juxtaposition of disparate, even antithetical, phenomena carves out new approaches to defining the essence of being, one where the very nature of fixed categories is brought into question. An innovative look at a classic French auteur and three giants of European literature, The Bond of the Furthest Apart will interest scholars of literature, film, ethics, aesthetics, and anyone drawn to an experimental venture in critical thought.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 : 2021052508
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilych written by Leo Tolstoy and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Diaries written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by New York : Arno Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486432165
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resurrection written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy's novel of spiritual regeneration recounts the sins of a young Russian nobleman and his attempts in later life to redress those transgressions. A panoramic view of Russian social life at the end of the 19th century, Resurrection pointedly articulates the author's contempt for the social injustices of the world in which he lived.

Author : Miro Roman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624054
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Henri Troyat
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137685
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy written by Henri Troyat and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, discussing his childhood and youth, his stint in the military, his discovery of Europe, his relationships, and his writing.