Leo Tolstoy, trans. from the Russian by Dustin Condren, Harper Perennial, $10.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-199345-9
Tolstoy's no-frills, just-the-facts-ma'am version of the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings makes a readable account out of the four Gospels that begin the New Testament, but it bears little stylistic trace of the Tolstoy familiar to most...
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Leo Tolstoy, trans. from the Russian by Peter Carson. Norton/Liveright, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87140-426-8
This wonderful modern edition of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich appears side by side with the autobiographical Confession in a new translation by Peter Carson—perhaps even more remarkable for having been completed as Carson, a famed editor and...
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Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters, Quirk, $12.95 paper (538p) ISBN 9781594744600
The next installment in Quirk's much-heralded sci-fi/classics mashup series, this steampunk take on Anna Karenina discards tsarist Russia for an alternate reality where a miracle metal, gronzium, has fueled the development of a thriving robot...
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, Peter Sekirin, Translator Zondervan $19.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-310-22367-2
These 16 selections from Tolstoy's final eclectic collection of tales titled The Sunday Reading Stories represent the Russian novelist's turn away from the troubling human condition in Anna Karenina toward a growing preoccupation with moral issues....
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, Gordon Spence, Introduction by Northwestern University Press $16.95 (114p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1762-4
These 16 selections from Tolstoy's final eclectic collection of tales titled The Sunday Reading Stories represent the Russian novelist's turn away from the troubling human condition in Anna Karenina toward a growing preoccupation with moral issues....
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, Oliver Ford Davies, Read by , read by Oliver Ford Davies. Naxos Audiobooks $22.98 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-851-2
In the lovely, low tones of a fine storyteller, Oliver Fox Davies guides us through the stages of Tolstoy's mini masterpiece. Davies's skill with inflection, even within words, heightens the social satire of the early section and shifts...
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, Anthony Briggs, Translator, Orlando Figes, Afterword by Viking Books $40 (1412p) ISBN 978-0-670-03469-7
British scholar Briggs unveils his lucid new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece-the first in almost 40 years-to a slightly anxious audience, from first-timers who, balking at the amount of time required by this massive yet startlingly intricate...
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, James Riordan, Translator, Claus Sievert, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0735-0
Taken from Tolstoy's Azbuka , or ``primer,'' these are the stories he created for the village children who came to the ``school'' in his garden, the same children who would soon be old enough to work in factories for 12 hours, seven days a week. In...
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Author, Ann Keay Beneduce, Retold by, Gennady Spirin, Illustrator , retold by Ann Keay Beneduce, illus. by Gennady Spirin. Puffin $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-698-11966-6
With artwork that PW
called "full of expression and life," this retelling about a boy who longs to go to school with his older brother, and sneaks away from Grandma to win a place in the classroom is "fluid and clear." Ages 3-8. (Se
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