Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament that made him world famous. In a richly detailed and sympathetic audiobook on the most creative years of Russia's greatest writer, Edward Crankshaw explores the world of Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the ...
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Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament that made him world famous. In a richly detailed and sympathetic audiobook on the most creative years of Russia's greatest writer, Edward Crankshaw explores the world of Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the elements in it that contributed to his great art, and the nature of the creative processes involved. Mr. Crankshaw's text presents a development of this extraordinary man--his idyllic country childhood and his painful schooling, the wild years of conscience-stricken dissipation, the sojourn among the Cossacks in the Caucasus, the army service in the Crimean War, his entry into Moscow and St. Petersburg literary circles, his fateful marriage. It is an absorbing account that helps us to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's towering genius--and the limitations that went with it. Edward Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the nonconformist public school Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German caused him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and began to write reviews--mostly musical--for The Spectator , The Bookman , and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall Fine and bright with no wear or markings in a near fine or better jacket. Lots of history and historic photographics.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 4to-over 9? "-12" tall; Type: Hard Back First Edition. States "First published in 1974 by the Viking Press", their way of stating a first edition at the time of publishing. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Good+ Dust Jacket. Bright and clean red cloth binding, completely unmarked, lower corners and edges lightly rubbed; tight, solid and square with intact red and gold endbands. Internals quite clean and free from any markings, no creasing. A wealth of portraits, prints, drawings, photographs and documents give a vivid sense of the Russian world from which Tolstoy came, and the world he evoked so powerfully in his writings. Jacket with striking wrap-around artwork; it is quit clean, bright, unmarked with light to moderate wear to edges. Archival protective jacket cover. Crankshaw has written a detailed and sympathetic book on Russia's greatest writer, Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and his life and the world in which lived and wrote. There are illustrations of Tolstoy's life in all its stages. He provides a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's genius and the limitation that went with it. A Studio Book. 10 x 7.75 inches. 276 pages with Bibliography and Index. 1974, simultaneously published by Viking Press, New York, New York, USA and The Macmillan Company, Canada Limited.
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Very good(+) copy in very good dust jacket; remainder spray to bottom edge; small foxing stain at top of front endpapers; dj has 2 closed tears, at front & rear spine folds, and minor scuff wear to base of spine; minor spray effect to bottom inside... Sm. 4to 10 1/4"x 7 3/8" rose-pink cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine; 276 pgs, heavily illus in b&w w/ 11 pages in color, on coated paper; dust jacket shows wrap-around color print of St. Petersburg (1806) w/ medallion portrait of Tolstoy on front, lettering in black; $16.95 on front flap.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Edges of spine lightly bumped. Bottom corners slightly bent. Slight shelf rubbing to dust jacket Sticker on rear dust jacket. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
