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"Tolstoy and China" by Derk Bodde, No. 4 in the “History of Ideas” Series, pages, hardcover; Princeton Press, © This is a book for scholars of history and cultural/political philosophy. The famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (–) never visited by: 9. This book on the impact of Chinese civilization upon Tolstoy’s thinking and writing reveals new resources in the study of a great Russian novelist.

Making use of newly available Russian materials, Mr. Bodde explores Tolstoy’s correspondence and his reading and writing on Chinese subjects to determine his conception of Chinese culture and how deeply it affected his thought in such fields as music.

This book on the impact of Chinese civilization upon Tolstoy's thinking and writing reveals new resources in the study of a great Russian novelist. Making. North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland, USA +1 () [email protected] © Project MUSE.

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I couldn't find it in the details anywhere when I bought this, but it is the Maude translation (again, this is the 3 volume hardcover edition i don't know if all war and peace reviews are lumped together or not).

Tolstoy wrote this book as a philosophical and religious search for an understanding of life beyond scientific formulae, and as part of his search for human happiness. Published by White Crow Books, Tolstoy and China. book The Cossacks: A Tale of graf Leo Tolstoy downloads Father Sergius graf Leo Tolstoy downloads Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales graf Leo Tolstoy downloads.

The book is the product of a very big mind, who lost interest in almost everything War and Peace was about before he died. It is a living organism that is never quite the same as you remembered.

In hisTolstoi und der Orient,pp.Biryukov lists 54 books, pamphlets and periodicals, relative to various oriental civilizations, religions and philosophies, which he says existed in Tolstoy’s library at Yasnaya en of them are important for our purpose because they relate directly to China.

These can be more than doubled, however, by examination of other sources. This is surely worth a quick heads up: Leo Tolstoy’s entire body of work – pages of it – will appear on the web ing to Tolstoy's great-great-granddaughter Fyokla Tolstaya, all of the author's novels, short stories, fairy tales, essays and personal letters will be made freely available in PDF, FB2 and EPUB formats (which you can easily load onto a Kindle.

Curiously, Tolstoy seems to consider the teenage years one’s most formative, prescribing for them books greater in both quality and quantity, whereas the twenties and early thirties are most meager in both and mostly occupied by poetry — perhaps because few people at the time had the luxury of leisure for reading during their most vital.

Leo Tolstoy. By Andrei Zorin. Reaktion Books; pages; $19 and £ L EO TOLSTOY was an inveterate quitter. All his life, he gave up the things that mattered to him, or tried to. Facing Death with Tolstoy. By Mary Bear d. November 5, infirst to China, where she met her part-French, part-Anglo-Irish husband, and later to England.

was in British. China, the West, and Tolstoy --Tolstoy's readings on China --Tolstoy's writings and publications on China --Tolstoy's contacts with Chinese --The meaning of China to Tolstoy --The question of Chinese influence.

Series Title: History of ideas series (Princeton, N.J.), no. Responsibility: by Derk Bodde with the collaboration of Galia Speshneff. This book on the impact of Chinese civilization upon Tolstoy's thinking and writing reveals new resources in the study of a great Russian novelist.

Making use of newly available Russian materials, Mr. Bodde explores Tolstoy's correspondence and his reading and writing on Chinese subjects to determine his conception of Chinese culture and how. tolstoy's readings on china, pg. 11*chapter iii. tolstoy's writings and publications on china, pg.

30*chapter iv. tolstoy's contacts with chinese, pg. 47*chapter v. the meaning of china to tolstoy, pg. 59*chapter vi. the question of chinese influence, pg. 75*appendix a: a chinese poet's pilgrimage to yasnaya polyana, pg. 91*appendix beta.

list 3/5(1). According to Tolstoy's wife Sonia, the idea for The Kreutzer Sonata () was given to Tolstoy by the actor V.N. Andreev-Burlak during his visit at Yasnaya Polyana in June In the spring of an amateur performance of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata took place in Tolstoy's home and it made the author to return to an idea he had had in the Missing: China.

With any classic book, but especially a book the length of Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace, it’s easy to be intimidated and avoid reading ’s no need to avoid War and Peace for that reason. Just a few chapters in, you will be pulled in and find yourself racing through it like a. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Bodde, Derk, Tolstoy and China.

New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. [, ©] (OCoLC). Tolstoy discusses mass activity as a combination of"infinitesimal units of activity" and provides a short summary of past and future events.

Moscow's abandonment and burning is the great deed that saves Russia and the moment-by-moment details of the event are discussed, including Rastoptchin's last-minute bid for glory at the expense of the.A turning point in history.

A "hinge of fate" on which the rest of C19 European history hangs. Tolstoy spends much of the latter part of the book musing on the inevitability of events, turning over and over how a French "victory" led inevitably to the destruction of /5(K). This is almost two books in one.

Wilson begins the book with glittering literary praise, flushed with admiration for Tolstoy's novels and driven by an obsessive fan's knack for relating the fiction to Tolstoy's life and Tolstoy's Russia/5(41).