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The Last Station
Jay Parini
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Description for The Last Station
Paperback. By 1910, Leo Tolstoy had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone. This book centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 34. Weight in Grams: 294.
By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ... Read more
By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife and his leading disciple. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841959672
SKU
V9781841959672
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Ref
99-27
About Jay Parini
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Station
An impressively knowing and sensitive performance, a wistful late twentieth-century tribute to the giant conflicts of a more titanic age.
Observer
One of those rare works of fiction that manage to demonstrate both scrupulous historical research and true originality of voice and perception.
New York Times Book Review
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Observer
One of those rare works of fiction that manage to demonstrate both scrupulous historical research and true originality of voice and perception.
New York Times Book Review
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