$13.26
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2016
Summary
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946.
Launched in 2015, the extraordinarily successful Little Black Classics series has now sold nearly 1 million copies in the UK alone and over 2 million worldwide.
This second batch of 46 titles includes authors and works new to the Penguin Classics list, as well as bite-sized tasters of the Classics’ diverse global range.
‘It is only a bruise’
A care…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241251768 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241251761 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Edition: | 87th |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 110mm x 159mm |
| Series: | Penguin Little Black Classics |
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Critics Review
“The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators.” —Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books
“Excellent… . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy’s prose.” —The New Criterion
“Pevear and Volokhonsky’s new version is … flexible individuated, immediate.” —The Nation
“Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy’s work, one couldn’t ask for more, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.” —André Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
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