Jay Parini

The Last Station (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A modern classic and an unforgettable portrait of Russia on the cusp of revolution.'
Simon Sebag Montefiore

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price.

In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so he leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in peaceful isolation. But the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be so simple.

'One of the best historical novels written in the last twenty years.'
Gore Vidal

'Remarkable . . . One of those rare works of fiction that demonstrates both scrupulous historical research and true originality of voice.'
New York Times

'A subtle masterpiece.'
Times Literary Supplement

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673947
• Artikelnr.: 39496677

Autorenporträt

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. In addition to New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015, he has published eight novels including The Last Station and Benjamin's Crossing. He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner and Gore Vidal. He edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.

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