Lives and Deaths by Leo Tolstoy

Lives and Deaths by Leo TolstoyFresh translations of Tolstoy's richest shorter works by the award winning Boris Dralyuk. Although best known for his monumental novels, Tolstoy also wrote tightly compressed works of equal power. This new collection gathers perhaps his greatest novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, together with shorter masterpieces 'Three Deaths', 'Pace setter' and the fable like story 'Alyosha the Pot'. Whether writing from the perspective of an aged horse or plotting

we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe

determined to nurse her brother back to health

popularly known as ‘M’

and airships

Join Coleman Barks and Rumi for a year-long journey into the mystical and sacred within and without

This indispensable volume collects

he falls in love

with a new introduction by Anne Enright

his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter

It has received significant awards including the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 1995 and The Association for Asian Studies

Fiona Fernandez

a world where the ghosts of the dead wait for justice and the unwary are prey for the worst kind of creatures