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On life : a critical edition / Leo Tolstoy ; edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya ; translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya.

Tolstoy, Leo. (Author). Medzhibovskaya, Inessa. (Added Author). Denner, Michael A. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780810138056
  • ISBN: 0810138050
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)
  • Publisher: Chicago : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Tolstoy's On Life and Its Times (Inessa Medzhibovskaya); A Note on the Text; On Life (Leo Tolstoy Translated by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya); Editor's Notes; Historical Supplement (Selected, Translated, and Annotated by Inessa Medzhibovskaya); Tolstoy's Diary (May 1886-February 1887); Tolstoy's Letter to A.K. Diterikhs (September-October 1886); "The Concept of Life": Tolstoy's Talk at the Moscow Psychological Society (March 14, 1887); Letters concerning On Life, Aleksandra Andreevna Tolstaya and Lev Tolstoy.
Letter to Nikolai Grot, against Tolstoy and On Life, Archbishop Nikanor of Kherson and Odessa"A Little Chronicle": A Reader's Response to Critics of On Life (1889); Vladimir Soloviev's Unsent Letter to Tolstoy (circa 1889-91; last known edited copy 1894); Nikolai Grot's Comparison of On Life with Nietzsche's Writings (1893); Letter to the Editor from P.K. Novitskaya (1895).
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Life.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Life


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