After the Ball is a novella written by Tolstoy in one day in 1903, and turned out to be a prophetic insight into the horrors of the twentieth century. The story’s plotline is ce
In my personal list of the best of the best literary texts – written not only in Russian, but in any language – this relatively short novella would definitely be number one. It
Tolstoy’s final work wasn’t published in his lifetime. It is dedicated to the tempestuous nineteenth-century Avar rebellion leader and a hero of the so-called Caucasian War, wh
Editors’ note: It could be serendipity, or simply that Pevear and Volokhonsky are so revered, any mention of Russian literature in English translation means their names are on
It was a recent television adaptation of War and Peace that spurred me on to my second reading of the great novel, some forty years after I last read my way through its 1,200-plus
