Lives and Deaths

Essential Stories

by Leo Tolstoy

This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.

Buy on Amazon Buy on BN.com Buy on Bookshop.org

*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.

Pub Date Oct 27 2020 | Archive Date Sep 17 2020

Pushkin Press | Pushkin Collection

General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

Talking about this book? Use #LivesandDeaths #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!

Description

Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk

Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life.

These are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.

Advance Praise

• "Gratifying and timely." --Times Literary Supplement

• "When literature has a Tolstoy, it is easy and gratifying to be a writer. Even if you are aware that you have never accomplished anything, you don't feel so bad, because Tolstoy accomplishes enough for everyone"--Anton Chekhov

• "The greatest of all novelists"--Virginia Woolf

• "Gratifying and timely." --Times Literary Supplement

• "When literature has a Tolstoy, it is easy and gratifying to be a writer. Even if you are aware that you have never accomplished...