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The portable Tolstoy / selected and with a critical introduction, biographical summary, and bibliography by John Bayley Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University.
LIBRA Rare PG3365 .A2 1978b Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
- Series:
- Viking portable library
- The Viking portable library
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Translations into English.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
- Short stories, Russian--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Russian.
- Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Manners and customs.
- Local Subjects:
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 888 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Kingsport, Tennessee : Printed by Kingsport Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ;] [New York] : Penguin Books, [1978]
- Contents:
- Part One. The Past Recaptured. A history of yesterday; from Childhood; from Boyhood; from Youth
- Part Two. Fiction in the Years of War and Peace. The raid; The wood-felling; Sevastopol; Two hussars; from The Cossacks; Strider
- Part Three. Fiction after Anna Karenina. God sees the truth, but waits; What men live by; How much land doesa man need?; The Kreutzer Sonata; Master and man
- Part Four. Older Self. The memoirs of a madman; A confession; I cannot be silent
- Part Five. The Theatre. The Power of Darkness
- Part Six. Arts and Letters. from What is art?; Introduction to the works of Guy de Maupassant; Preface to Wilhelm von Polenz's novel Der Büttnerbauer; An afterword to Chekov's story "The Darling".
- Notes:
- "First published in the United States of America in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions by The Viking Press and Penguin Books 1978."
- "Set in Linotype Times Roman."
- "Tolstoy, who knew English well, said in his later years that the best English translations of his works had bee made by Aylmer Maude ... the consistently careful, sympathetic, and well-documented translations by the Maudes, issued by the Oxford University Press, have become the accepted standard for Tolstoy in English. When it was time to attempt a 'Portable Tolstoy', it seemed logical and served consistency to use the Maude translations throughout whenever they existed. This proved to be the case for all John Bayley's selections except the first: A history of yesterday - never picked up by the Maudes but translated by an American, Professor George L. Kline of Bryn Mawr."--A Note on the Translations.
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 887-888).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Short stories. English. Selections. Portable Tolstoy.
- ISBN:
- 0140150919
- 9780140150919
- OCLC:
- 3843908
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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