"En écoutant Tolstoï" de Léon Tolstoï. 1873-1877.

En écoutant Tolstoï

This carefully crafted ebook: "Anna Karenina - 2 Classic Unabridged Translations in one eBook (Garnett and Maude translations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".
Plot: A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity.
About the Garnett translation: Constance Garnett's translation of Anna  Karenina is still among the best. Some scholars feel that her language  is closer to the 19th-century sense of the original. Garnett translated  seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of  Dostoyevsky's novels. A friend of Garnett's, D. H. Lawrence, was in awe  of her matter-of-fact endurance, recalling her "sitting out in the  garden turning out reams of her marvelous translations from the Russian.  She would finish a page, and throw it off on a pile on the floor  without looking up, and start a new page. That pile would be this  high--really, almost up to her knees, and all magical."
About the Maude translation: the translation by Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) and Louise Shanks Maude (1855-1939) is highly considered by scholars. This unabridged and annotated translation from the original russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1918. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement.

Anna Karenina - 2 Classic Unabridged Translations in one eBook (Garnett and Maude translations)

Excerpt from Les Cosaques: Souvenirs de Sebastopol; Traduits du RusseJe puis tout dire en ce moment, dit-il. Je ne cherche pas a me justifier, mais je voudrais que tu me comprennes comme je me comprends moi - meme, et non comme la foule envisage l'affaire. Tu dis que j'ai tort envers elle, ajouta-til en se tournant vers celui qui le regardait avec bonte.Oui, tu as tort, dit le petit laid, et son visage exprima encore plus de douceur et de lassitude.Je sais ce qui te porte a le penser, reprit le partant. A ton avis, etre aime suffit et vaut mieux que d'aimer soi meme.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Les Cosaques: Souvenirs de Sébastopol; Traduits Du Russe (Classic Reprint)

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

La Mort d'Ivan Iliitch

Anna Karenine" de Leon Tolstoi. Un des ecrivains majeurs de la litterature russe(1873-1877).

Anna Karénine

Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together, by paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, and filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal, still spring was spring, even in the town.

The sun shone warm, the air was balmy; everywhere, where it did not get scraped away, the grass revived and sprang up between the paving-stones as well as on the narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards. The birches, the poplars, and the wild cherry unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the limes were expanding their opening buds; crows, sparrows, and pigeons, filled with the joy of spring, were getting their nests ready; the flies were buzzing along the walls, warmed by the sunshine. All were glad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheating and tormenting themselves and each other. It was not this spring morning men thought sacred and worthy of consideration not the beauty of God's world, given for a joy to all creatures, this beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony, and to love, but only their own devices for enslaving one another.

Resurrection

Something entirely new, unseen and unheard-of formerly, has lately shown itself in our country districts. To our village, consisting of eighty homesteads, from half a dozen to a dozen cold, hungry, tattered tramps come every day, wanting a night's lodging.

These people, ragged, half-naked, barefoot, often ill, and extremely dirty, come into the village and go to the village policeman. That they should not die in the street of hunger and exposure, he quarters them on the inhabitants of the village, regarding only the peasants as "inhabitants." He does not take them to the squire, who besides his own ten rooms has ten other apartments: office, coachman's room, laundry, servants' and upper-servants' hall and so on; nor does he take them to the priest or deacon or shopkeeper, in whose houses, though not large, there is still some spare room; but he takes them to the peasants, whose whole family, wife, daughters-in-law, unmarried daughters, and big and little children, all live in one room-sixteen, nineteen, or twenty-three feet long. And the master of the hut takes the cold, hungry, stinking, ragged, dirty man, and not merely gives him a night's lodging, but feeds him as well.

Three Days in the Village

Novela corta cuya intriga gira en torno a Ivan Ilich, un pequeno burocrata que fue educado en su infancia con las convicciones de poder alcanzar un puesto dentro del gobierno del Imperio Zarista. Poco a poco sus ideales se van cumpliendo, pero se dara cuenta de que no ha servido de nada dicho esfuerzo; al llegar cerca de la posicion que siempre ha sonado, se encontrara con el dilema de descifrar el significado de tanto sacrificio, y de valorar tambien el malestar reinante en el pequeno entorno familiar que se ha construido.

La Mort d’Ivan Ilitch (illustré)

Russie, 1880. Anna Karenine, est une jeune femme de la haute societe de Saint-Petersbourg. Elle est mariee a Alexis Karenine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration imperiale, un personnage austere et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garcon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski, venu a la rencontre de sa mere. Elle tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole."

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