TOLSTOY

READINGS FOR THE COURSE


Childhood (Excepts)


Sevastopol Sketches (Excepts)


"Strider"


Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina. Text. Arranged by chapter. (On the "Friends and Partners" website.)

"Anna Karenina". Some stills from the movie (with Sophie Marceau).


"The Kreutzer Sonata"

"The Kreutzer Sonata". Online text. (Maude translation) (Distributed by the Tolstoy Library OnLine)

"Epilogue to the Kreutzer Sonata". By Leo Tolstoy, 1890. (Translation by Leo Wiener).

"Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata". An article by Isabel Hapgood. From the Nation 50 (17 April 1890).


"The Power of Darkness"


"Master and Man"

"Master and Man". Text. (Translation by L. and A. Maude) (Distributed by the Tolstoy Library).


"God Sees the Truth, but Waits"


"The Memoirs of a Madman"


"How Much Land Does a Man Need"

"How Much Land Does a Man Need". Text. (Translation by L. and A. Maude) (Distributed by the Tolstoy Library).


ON TOLSTOY AND HIS WORKS - GENERAL INFORMATION


(English Language Sources)

Tolstoy Library. Works by Tolstoy. A source for English translations of some of Tolstoy's works.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood. A book by Paul Birukoff (fr om the Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia Library)--the entire text, including pictures. Biography of Tolstoy.

The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy. A book by Vladimir Chertkov (1854-1936). Prepared for publication by Leo Finegold.

The Tragedy of Tolstoy. A biography of her father by Aleksandra Tolstaya, published in 1933. A First-hand view. [File must be downloaded.]

Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy A book by Maxim Gorky (20th cent. Russian writer). [File must be downloaded.]

Tolstoy on Art. Notes with a place to make your own comments.

Leo Tolstoy. Links to background information on T. and texts. Presented on a web site by Haakon Sorensen. Several biographies of Tolstoy can be ftp'd to your computer from this site.

Leo Tolstoy. Brief notes on his life and works by Naum Shaparin.

Tolstoy Lecture Hall. Chat group on Tolstoy.


(Russian Language Sources)

Public Electronic Library. Source for Tolstoy's works in Russian. (Evgeny Peskin, moderator).

"Loginov protiv Tolstogo". Article on Tolstoy. Includes remarks on T's popularity in the West.


LECTURES AND ARTICLES ON TOLSTOY


"The Tolstoyan Conception of God". An article by Daniel Beck.

"Tolstoy's Place in European Literature". An article by Edward Garnett. From G.K. Chesterton, G. Perris, and Edward Garnett,Leo Tolstoy, (New York: Pott, 1903).

"A Sterile Flower: Sonya in War and Peace". An article by Rosanna M. Taormina (Darmouth University).

"How A Russian Maupassant Was Made in Odessa and Yasnaya Polyana: Isaak Babel' and the Tolstoy Legacy". An article by Alexander Zholkovsky.

"Leo Tolstoy: Symbol of Reconciliation between East and West". A talk by A. Ross Wilcock, given at the Leo Tolstoy UN Colloquium, 1988.

Radio Discussion on July 27, 1997 with professors of literature at Ohio University, Marilyn Atlas and Edgar Whan (joined by scholar Peter Heidtmann). Transcript of their discussion of Leo Tolstoy's short stories, "Master and Man" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych".


PICTURES OF TOLSTOY / TOURS OF TOLSTOY PLACES


Yasnaya Poliana. Pictures of Tolstoy's estate (where he was born, where he lived for about 60 years, etc.). Page from Mauro Corso.

L. N. Tolstoy on His Deathbed (postcard). Includes an English translation of the text on the postcard (translated by Benjamin Sher). From a page created by Brick Robbins.

The Lev Tolstoy Estate-Museum in Khamovniki. A picture and a short text of a place Tolstoy lived in in the Moscow area.

Lev Tolstoy's house in Moscow. A picture of his study + a short text.

Leo Tolstoy's Grave. A picture from "Find a Grave."


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