Contains ten stories- The Two Hussars; Strider; A Prisoner in the Caucasus; God Sees the Truth But Waits; What Men Live By; Neglect a Spark; Two Old Men; How Much Land Does a Man Need; The Three Hermits; Master and Man
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.
By:
Leo Tolstoy
Notes by:
Paul Foote
Introduction by:
Hugh McLean
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780140449624
ISBN 10: 0140449620
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 18 July 2005
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface; A. Carius, A. Vincze. Theoretical Linkages and Policy Approaches to the Environment and Security Debate: Providing an Overview; E. Petzold-Bradley, et al. Overview of Environment and Security Challenges. Environment and Security on the International Agenda: Challenges for Environmental Policy; K.M. Lietzmann. Negotiations to Avert Transboudary Environmental Security Conflicts; Bertram I. Spector. Resource and Environmental Conflict: The State-of-the-Art; N. P. Gleditsch. Assessing Environmental Security? Theoretical Aspects of Environmental Security; H.C. Dyer. Cultural Differentiation as a Source of Environmental Conflict; Yannis N. Kinnas. Comparative Environmental Policy and Risk Assessment: Implications for Risk Communication, International Conflict Resolution and National Security; G. Schultink. Side-Stepping Environmental Conflicts: The Role of Natural-Hazards Assessment, Planning and Mitigation; N. Pinter, et al. The Security Diagram: An Approach to Quantifying Global Environmental Security; J. Alcamo, M. Endejan. A Case Study Approach. Environment and Security in Hungary; A. Vincze, L. Halasz. Redefining Security Around the Baltic: Environmental Issues in a Regional Context; S.D. VanDeveer, G.D. Dabelko. Environment and Security Challenges in the Black Sea Region; I. Rudneva, E. Petzold-Bradley. Mechanisms of Environmental Security in Russia: Out of Order?; V. Kotov, E. Nikitina. Democratization, Nationalism and Eco-Politics: The Slovak-Hungarian Conflict Over the Gabikovo-Nagymaros Dam System on the Danube; M. Sukosd. The Role of International and Environmental Institutions. Preventing Environmentally-Induced Conflicts through International Environmental Policy; S. Oberthur. Environment and Security: Institutional Approaches within the European Union; M. Brusasco-Mackenzie. The UNECE Environmental Conventions: Their Role and Potential to Promote Conflict Prevention and Settlement of Disputes in Transboundary Environmental Issues; B. Bosnjakovic. Achievements and Limitations of International Environmental Regimes and Institutions in Positive Dispute Prevention: UNEP's Role; S.J.H. Hoefnagel, A.U.D. Bode.
Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula province. He took part in the Crimean war and after the defence of Sevastopol wrote The Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his literary reputation. He is the author, among many other works, of War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) and A Confession (1879-82). Ronald Wilks has translated widely from the Russian, including for Penguin works by Gorky, Gogol and Chekhov. Hugh McLean has published widely on Russian literature, including contributing an essay on The Countryside to the Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel and one on Tolstoy's Resurrection to the Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Paul Foote was, until his retirement, a University Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford.
