Tolstoy s Short Fiction（托尔斯泰短篇小说）

Thetenshortstoriesincludedinthisvolume,writtenbetween1855and1905,representthebestofTolstoy’sshorterworksbothbeforeWarandPeaceandafterAnnaKarenina.TheLouiseandAylmerMaudetranslationsofTolstoy’sshortfictionhavebeenrevisedbyMichaelR.Katzforincreasedaccessibility.Eachstoryhasbeenfullyannotatedforstudentreaders.BackgroundsandSourcesincludestwoTolstoymemoirs,AHistoryofYesterday(1851)andTheMemoirsofaMadman(1884),aswellasexcerptsfromTolstoy’sdiariesandlettersthatshedlightonhisethos.Criticismiscomprisedofnineteenwide-ranginganalysesbybothRussianandWesternscholars.IncludedareessaysbyGarySaulMorson,CarylEmerson,N.G.Chernyshevsky,MikhailBakhtin,JohnBayley,VladimirNabokov,N.K.Mikhailovsky,andDonaldBarthelme,amongothers.