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 The just extensive hardcover version of Tolstoy's shorter fiction--57 stories and novellas, including two which have nothing you've seen prior appeared in English. In these two fine volumes, every part of Tolstoy's art and character is mirrored: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his wedded life, his enthusiastic curiosity about the peasantry, his belief in reality and simplicity, and most importantly, his increasing preoccupation with faith. Varying in scope in the brief books Hadj Murad and The Kreutzer Sonata to folktales just a few pages long, they provide us thoroughly in to the earth of the truly amazing Euro novelist.(Book Coat Position: Not Jacketed)