What is art? (Scott Library Edition)
by Leo Tolstoy
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine
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About This Item
Walter Scott, LTD, London. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine. Hardcover, no dust jacket, as issued. No copyright date listed. Green cloth cover with gold foil stamp has slightly bumped tips to the boards, some wear to the top and bottom of the spine, and moderate shelf wear to the lower edges of the boards. The pages have a gold gilt on the top of the body, are clean, unmarked, and firmly attached to the spine. This book is in fine to very fine condition.
Synopsis
Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol , and Bulgakov . Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. They are married and live in Paris, France. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol , and Bulgakov . Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. They are married and live in Paris, France.
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- Bookseller
- TNT Enterprises
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B10661
- Title
- What is art? (Scott Library Edition)
- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Walter Scott, LTD, London
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