Tolstoy's masterpiece, with cartoons. The first in the RatSoap™ series of graphic adaptations of classic novels---using minimalist drawings---in which rats represent the principal characters. The Soap half of RatSoap refers to the e...

Get a glimpse of young Tolstoy in this revelatory new translation of his poignant semi-autobiographical trilogy Leo Tolstoy wrote his first published work, Childhood, when he was only twenty-three years old. A semi-autobiographical n...

Each of the 6 powerful tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, shrewd observations, and vivid narration that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. In addition to the title story, this compilation includes 'Three Deaths,' 'T...

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety....

An English language translation from the French first published in 1887 of a novella by Leo Tolstoy.

A land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly "for business" (pu...

Two irresistibly intimate masterworks by one of Russia's greatest writers Published here in a marvelous new translation, Resurrection tells the story of a Russian nobleman who comes face to face with the sins of his past. When Prince ...

A collection of three sketches first published in the original Russian in 1855 recording Tolstoy's experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-55). This authorised English translation was published in America in 1888.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was foremost among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century, and is widely considered one of the greatest writers of prose fiction in world history. In h...

Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice…greed and devotio...

"Over the past hundred years we have had numerous versions . . . of [Tolstoy's] major works. This volume, however, is arguably the best so far." —Times Literary Supplement In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson...

"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied."As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and ...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and ...

"The Forged Coupon" is a novella in two parts. Although Tolstoy first conceived the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902, finally completing it in 1904. However, it was not published until some of...

We know of no better introduction to the spiritual vision of one of the greatest writers of all time. This anthology vividly reveals – as none of his novels, novellas, short stories, plays, or essays could on its own – the great R...

An examination of the conflicts within and among nations, this treatise proposes a remedy based on true Christian doctrine: recognition of love as the supreme law of life. Written just before World War I, it articulates Tolstoy's famo...

Short stories have long been regarded as a potent form of writing. Concentrated and distilled yet engaging the reader at a pace that commands attention in the pages it occupies. Narrative and characters are still fully fleshed and t...

An anthology of one story and three short pieces first published in 1885.