Tolstoy, Leo

Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection, 2020.

New Book.

Item #6290
ISBN: 9781782275411

Paperback. 224 pp.

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.

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