Download or read book Tolstoy s Phoenix written by George R. Clay and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analyzing the structure of War and Peace, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and jargon-free analysis of one of the world's greatest novels. Beginning with Tolstoy's strategies, devices, and structural elements, Clay moves beyond previous approaches and reveals the novel's larger thematic concerns, showing how all the pieces fit into an overall pattern that he calls the phoenix design.
Download or read book Introduction to Tolstoy s Writings written by Ernest Joseph Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Tolstoy written by Ilya Tolstoy and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Reminiscences of Tolstoy By His Son by Ilya Tolstoy is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Download or read book Introduction to Russian Realism written by Ernest Joseph Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raid and Other Stories written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes "Sevastopol," "Two Hussars," "Albert," "What Men Live By," "Master and Man," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "The Death of Ivan Ilych," "The Three Hermits," and the title piece.
Download or read book Stalin s Secret War written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tolstoy s Major Fiction written by Edward Wasiolek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Wasiolek, after much valuable work on Dostoevsky, has now written one of the best books on Tolstoy in recent decades. This may be in part because of his preoccupation with Tolstoy's most challenging contemporary, and the resulting sense of their unlikeness in a common pursuit. But there are other, unspeculative reasons. Few studies of Tolstoy have been so carefully pondered and so firmly organized to convince; and not so many show the flexibility and variety of its approach. Wasiolek proposes an essentially simple and consistent reading, but he advances it with subtlety and discretion."—Henry Gifford, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy written by Donna Tussing Orwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy's writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy's life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Download or read book War and Peace written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Download or read book The Long Exile and Other Stories written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher, as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer.
Download or read book Heathcliff s Underground Notes Bront Tolstoy Dostoyevsky Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront Anna Karenina by Graf Leo Tolstoy Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written by Emily Brontë and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 1594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Venture into the windswept moors of Yorkshire with “Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.” Brontë's timeless novel unfolds a tale of passionate and destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, exploring themes of revenge, social class, and the haunting nature of unfulfilled desires. Book 2: Immerse yourself in the complex world of aristocratic Russia with “Anna Karenina by Graf Leo Tolstoy.” Tolstoy's epic novel delves into the lives of its characters, with Anna's tragic love affair and the moral dilemmas faced by the Russian elite serving as a backdrop for profound reflections on love, society, and morality. Book 3: Plummet into the depths of existential introspection with “Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.” Dostoyevsky's novella explores the tortured psyche of an unnamed narrator, offering a philosophical exploration of alienation, free will, and the contradictions inherent in the human condition.
Download or read book Ashram Observances in Action written by M. K. Gandhi and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhiji believed that character building on the part of every single individual is the only sure foundation for nation building. Students of his philosophy of life who would like to have an idea of his Rule for self-culture would do well first of all to read Appendices A and B in this book. They should then pass on to a study of From Yeravda Mandir — Ashram Observances and of the present volume, and at last dip into Appendix C, which is Gandhiji's last will and testament in so far as Ashram life is concerned.
Download or read book The Cossacks written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy and translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy s 5 Greatest Novellas Annotated written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reading War & Peace, Fyodor Dostoevsky put the book down and said, "The fool hath said in heart there is no God." Yet, Tolstoy's shorter novels (i.e., novellas) are filled with all the war, adventure, comedy, religion, tragedy, and Russian tradition that inhabit the longer novels of the Russian bear of literature. Andrew Barger, editor of the best selling anthology, "Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated," has gathered the very best of Tolstoy's novellas into one remarkable collection that includes hundreds of annotations of difficult Russian terms and sheds light on historic figures mentioned in the stories. But there is much more to this anthology. Andrew has included a short biography on Tolstoy and a chronology of his life and publications. Read these fascinating novellas today: 1) The Invaders - A Russian team moves against Shamyl and his Islamic army in the Caucasus, which is based on Tolstoy's military experiences in the 1850s. 2) The Death of Ivan Ilyich - When a man who has done good his entire life is stricken with an illness, it makes him question everything. 3) Two Hussars - When a hell-raiser takes lodging in a small Russian city, debauchery is inevitable but will it be matched years later by his son? 4) Father Sergius - The taboo subject of a priest being subjected to physical temptation is explored in one of Tolstoy's most scandalous stories. 5) Master & Man - By the end of this snowstorm adventure, you will be asking yourself, Who is the master and who is the servant? What do some of the world's greatest literary minds have to say about the works of Tolstoy: A second Shakespeare. Gustave Flaubert No English novelist is as great as Tolstoy. E.M. Forster The greatest Russian writer of prose fiction. Vladimir Nabokov The greatest of all novelists. Virginia Woolf Read the shorter novels of Leo Tolstoy today: http://www.AndrewBarger.com
Download or read book The South African Gandhi written by Ashwin Desai and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation’s political context. In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. “India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma,” goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi’s first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal—a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi’s racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history. The authors show that Gandhi never missed an opportunity to show his loyalty to Empire, with a particular penchant for war as a means to do so. He served as an Empire stretcher-bearer in the Boer War while the British occupied South Africa, he demanded guns in the aftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion, and he toured the villages of India during the First World War as recruiter for the Imperial army. This meticulously researched book punctures the dominant narrative of Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous figure whose time on African soil was marked by a desire to seek the integration of Indians, minus many basic rights, into the white body politic while simultaneously excluding Africans from his moral compass and political ideals. Praise for The South African Gandhi “In this impressively researched study, two South African scholars of Indian background bravely challenge political myth-making on both sides of the Indian Ocean that has sought to canonize Gandhi as a founding father of the struggle for equality there. They show that the Mahatma-to-be carefully refrained from calling on his followers to throw in their lot with the black majority. The mass struggle he finally led remained an Indian struggle.” —Joseph Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India “This is a wonderful demonstration of meticulously researched, evocative, clear-eyed and fearless history writing. It uncovers a story, some might even call it a scandal, that has remained hidden in plain sight for far too long. The South African Gandhi is a big book. It is a serious challenge to the way we have been taught to think about Gandhi.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
Download or read book Government is Violence written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the man's writings on anarchism and pacifism.
Download or read book Tolstoy s Political Thought written by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed 'Christian anarchism'. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy’s political thought. It outlines in a systematic way Tolstoy’s thought, which was originally articulated unsystematically in diverse, often informal writing, such as pamphlets, letters, and speeches, as well as books, and in his novels, where Tolstoy’s thinking is put forward implicitly through the novels’ characters. The book sets out the basic themes of Tolstoy’s political thought: his acceptance of the teachings of Jesus, his criticism of the way in which Jesus’ teachings have been relayed by the church through traditional creeds and dogma, his passionate rejection of political violence by both the state and those working for reform, his plea for a nonviolent response to violence and injustice, and his call for society to forego its institutional shackles and enact a community of peace, love, and justice. The book also includes background information on the Russia of Tolstoy’s time, including the religious context, and a discussion of how Tolstoy’s political thought has been received by his admirers, who included Gandhi, and his critics.
