| Tolstoy: Plays: Volume I: 1856-1886 Translated Edition Contributor(s): Tolstoy, Leo (Author), Tulchinsky, Tanya (Translator), Wachtel, Andrew (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0810111098 ISBN-13: 9780810111097 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $74.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Asian - General - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.723 |
| LCCN: 94022919 |
| Series: European Drama Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.4" W x 8.11" (0.82 lbs) 191 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist; yet this part of his oeuvre has been consistently neglected by scholars and readers alike. Because the plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex peasant dialect, earlier translations have been flawed. Now the noted Slavic philologist Marvin Kantor and Tatiana Tulchinsky have prepared the first complete English translations of Tolstoy's plays. These latter pieces provide fascinating insight into Tolstoy's life and his development as a writer. Volume One includes: A Family of Gentlefolk A Practical Man An Uncle's Blessing Free Love An Infected Family The Nihilist Dramatization of the Legend about Aggeus The First Moonshiner |