The Portable Tolstoy (Viking Portable Library) [Paperback]

Leo Tolstoy (Author), John Bayley (Author)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 888 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (September 28, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140150919
• ISBN-13: 978-0140150919
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,702,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Portable Tolstoy, February 6, 2010

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This review is from: The Portable Tolstoy (Viking Portable Library) (Paperback)

Excellant snippets over the majority of Tolsstoys writing career. Good biographical info as well. I would recommend it to anyone interested in tolstoys' shorter works.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tolstoy is too vast for such an anthology, September 17, 2005

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This review is from: The Portable Tolstoy (Viking Portable Library) (Paperback)

This anthology contains some of the great writing of one of the greatest of all writers. In this sense it is invaluable.

But in another it seems to me to miss the mark.

For to break up ' War and Peace' and provide even some of the great passages is to miss the whole sense of the work which is in the presentation of a vast world, a flowing and moving world.

It is in this sense seems to me that Tolstoy is not quite suited for an anthology of this type, and that the reader who would give his attention to close to nine- hundred pages should do this to either one of the two great novels, 'War and Peace' or 'Anna Karenina'.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars portable great reading, May 11, 2003

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a very easy to carry around book of great works by tolstoy