Collected Shorter Fiction

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) The only comprehensive hardcover edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction--57 stories and novellas, including two that have never before appeared in English. In these two handsome volumes, every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his belief in truth and simplicity, and above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from the short novelsHadj MuradandThe Kreutzer Sonatato folktales only a few pages long, they bring us intimately into the world of the great Russian novelist.Tolstoy, Leo is the author of 'Collected Shorter Fiction' with ISBN 9780375412875 and ISBN 0375412875.