![]() ![]() The four novellas selected here stand closest to the novels, and represent Tolstoy at his creative best, exploring in a specific and focused way his characteristic themes: life understood as a journey of the discovery of identity and vocation, the meaning of one's life in the face of death, and the redemptive role of suffering and compassion. These fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even as they explore a set of themes common in the longer works. ![]() Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his sixty-year career as a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.' I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. `To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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