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Last steps : the late writings of Leo Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy ; edited with an introduction by Jay Parini ; translations by R.F. Christian ... [et al.].

Title
Last steps : the late writings of Leo Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy ; edited with an introduction by Jay Parini ; translations by R.F. Christian ... [et al.].
Author
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Publication
London ; New York : Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Parini, Jay
  • Christian, R. F. (Reginald Frank)
Description
xxv, 336 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
Presents selected essays, diary entries, letters, and addresses produced in the last three decades of the author's life.
Series Statement
Penguin classics
Uniform Title
  • Works. Selections. English
  • Penguin classics
Alternative Title
Works.
Subject
  • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
  • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 > Diaries
  • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 > Correspondence
  • 1800-1899
  • Novelists, Russian > 19th century > Biography
  • Novelists, Russian > 19th century > Diaries
  • Novelists, Russian > 19th century > Correspondence
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Diaries
  • Records and correspondence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiv]-25).
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Russian.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chronology -- Introduction / by Jay Parini -- Further reading -- A note on the translations -- From A confession (1882) -- From The first step (1891) -- Where love is, God is (1885) -- From The kingdom of God is within you (1893) -- From What is art? (1896) -- Letter on non-resistance to Ernest Howard Crosby of New York (1896) -- Letters on Henry George (1897) -- Modern science (1898) -- Letter to a non-commissioned officer (1899) -- From Need it be so? (1900) -- 'Thou shalt not kill' (1900) -- Patriotism and government (1900) -- A reply to the synod's edict of excommunication (1901) -- From What is religion, and wherein lies its essence? (1902) -- Letter on education (1902) -- An appeal to the clergy (1902) -- Work, death and sickness (1903) -- Three questions (1903) -- Alyosha Gorshok or Alyosha-the-Pot (1905) -- Shakespeare and the drama (1906) -- From The law of love and the law of violence (1908) -- Address to the Swedish Peace Congress in 1909 -- From Tolstoy's letters (1895-1910) -- From Tolstoy's diaries (1900-1910).
ISBN
  • 9780141191195 (pbk.)
  • 0141191198 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 428776245
  • SCSB-11248064
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library