{"product_id":"collected-shorter-fiction-of-leo-tolstoy-volume-ii-isbn-9780375412875","title":"Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eRanging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Volume 2 of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Shorter Fiction \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Iván Ilých, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHadji Murád \u003c\/i\u003ewill recognize the brilliant novelist now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness.\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e Aylmer and Louise Maude’s classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Bayley\u003c\/b\u003e, author of the Introduction to the collection, is former Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and the author of books on Tolstoy, Hardy, and Housman. He has also written several novels and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eElegy for Iris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translators:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAylmer Maude\u003c\/b\u003e spent much of his life in Russia and was a personal friend of Tolstoy's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNigel J. Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e recently retired from Middlesex University, where he was a principal lecturer in modern languages (Russian and French).","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303877169381,"sku":"NP9780375412875","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375412875.jpg?v=1767723909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/collected-shorter-fiction-of-leo-tolstoy-volume-ii-isbn-9780375412875","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}