Rosamund Bartlett: 4 books

Se o mundo pudesse escrever sua própria história, ele escreveria como Tolstói”, disse o jornalista e escritor russo Isaac Babel sobre um dos mais importantes nomes da literatura universal, Liev Tolstói, cuja vida é retratada por Rosamund Bartlett em Tolstói, a biografia, lançamento da Biblioteca...

Anton Chekhov The Major Plays Ivanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard “Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life,” Chekhov once declared. “For instance, people are having a meal, just having...

This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...