Count leon tolstoi (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First American Edition. 229p octavo. A very good copy in blue cloth Name stamped on end papers.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Authorized Edition. 193 pages; Rubbing to covers, minor. Wear to cover and spine edges, light. Cracked hinge between front endpapers, exposed mull. Binding sound. Markings on a prelim page. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Small 8vo. vi, (ii), 169, (5) pp. Later dark green pebbled cloth. Very good. A collection of five essays on miscellaneous subjects - "The Relations Between the Sexes", "Alcohol and Tobacco", "Drunkenness Amongst the Governing Classes", "Labour" and "Church and State". The translator's preface is initialled "W.M.T." - William M. Thomson, who also translated other works by the author published by Temple. The translation is apparently of dubious quality but this small volume in the "After Dinner Series" is uncommon, certainly so institutionally with only a small handful traced in libraries around the world.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1890. 243 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-library item with library bookplate present to the front pastedown with library stamps present to the spine. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (mark removed from the spine). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Gospel in Brief is a 1892 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Included in a larger volume in 1892, the 1896 account published as The Gospel in Brief is notable in that it excludes many of the supernatural aspects of the original gospels, such as their claims of Jesus's divine origins and ability to perform miracles. Instead, the work focuses on Jesus's teachings to his followers, presumably those which Tolstoy found most compelling. The Gospel in Brief is thought by some to be deeply reflective of Tolstoy's own interpretation of Christianity. The Gospel in Brief is said to be the result of Tolstoy's close study of the original Koine Greek New Testament. The account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian Orthodox Church, which went so far as to excommunicate him for his writings on Christianity in 1901.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Zustand: Good. William S. Gottsberger New York 1887 18mo. 193 pages. green cloth blindstamped boards with gilt lettering. corners lightly bumped. spine age toned and rubbed. previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. hinge cracked at front board. $NRP.

First edition in English of Tolstoy's masterpiece, a pillar of world literature. Octavo, six volumes in the publisher's original pictorial brown cloth stamped in giltÂand black, brown coated endpapers, with the cursive imprint in each part. Translated by Clara Bell. In near fine condition. Housed in two custom marbled slipcases. An exceptional set of Tolstoy's masterpiece, one of the finest we have seen. Widely considered the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the human spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicleall of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: "To read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane." "There remains the greatest of all novelists--for what else can we call the author of War and Peace" (Virginia Woolf).…