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Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology

Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An Anthology

Tolstoy, Leo
Medzhibovskaya, Inessa
Medzhibovskaya, Inessa

Paperback

Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1644694026
ISBN13: 9781644694022
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Oct 25 2022
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award, Honorable Mention, 2023.

For the best edition or book about editorial theory and/or practice published in the English language during 2021-2022.

Beginning with Tolstoy's first extant records of his written oeuvre, this anthology assembles seventy-seven unabridged texts that cover more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. It constitutes the most complete single-volume edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output: apothegmatic sayings, visions, intimate sketchbook and day notes, book reviews, open letters, dialogues, pedagogic talks, public lectures, programs and rules for personal behavior, fictions, and reminiscences. Most of these newly translated and thoroughly annotated texts have never been available in English. Among the four reprinted translations personally checked and authorized by Tolstoy is the text titled Tolstoy on Venezuela, an archival restoration of an authentic first publication in English of Patriotism, or Peace? (1896) that had been deemed lost. In the inaugural piece, a seven-year-old Tolstoy describes violent but natural animal life in contrast with the lazy life of a peaceful barnyard in the countryside. The last entry in the anthology written by an eighty-year-old Tolstoy for his grandchildren provides a lesson on vegetarianism and non-violence that a hungry wolf teaches a hungry boy during their conversation when both are on their way to lunch.

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