New Essays on Tolstoy (Paperback, Reissue)

Contributors; Editor's preface; Introduction R. F. Christian; Part I: 1. On translating Tolstoy Henry Gifford; 2. War over War and Peace: Prince Andrey Bolkonsky and critical literature of the 1860s and early 1870s A. V. Knowles; 3. A man speaking to men: the narratives of War and Peace W. Gareth Jones; 4. Problems of communication in Anna Karenina Malcolm V. Jones; 5. Hadji Murat: the power of understatement A. D. P. Briggs; Part II: 6. The body and pressure of time E. Lampert; 7. Tolstoy and religion E. B. Greenwood; 8. Tolstoy's philosophy of history F. F. Seeley; 9. The Purleigh Colony: Tolstoyan togetherness in the late 1890s M. J. de K. Holman; Tolstoy studies in Great Britain: a bibliographical survey Garth M. Terry; Index.