The Last Station
A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Stylish, beautifully paced and utterly beguiling. Sunday Times1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price.In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one.A modern classic and an unforgettable portrait of Russia on the cusp of revol…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84195-967-2
- EAN: 9781841959672
- Produktnummer: 2860139
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.2 cm x D3.4 cm 294 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 294
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.
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