Collected Shorter Fiction, Volume 2

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)The only comprehensive hardcover edition of

Tolstoy's shorter fiction--57 stories and novellas, including two that have

never before appeared in English.In these two handsome volumes, every aspect

of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in

the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his

belief in truth and simplicity, and above all, his growing preoccupation with

religion. Ranging in scope from the short novels _Hadj Murad_ and _The

Kreutzer Sonata_ to folktales only a few pages long, they bring us intimately

into the world of the great Russian novelist.