`To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.'Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his sixty-year career as a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. These fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even as they explore a set of Diana Greenway and Jane Sayers work atthe Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Dr Greenway is one of the general editors of the OMT series. TD'for its simplicity and clarity it is a joy to read'Bury Free Press'A very readable translation of a text that gives a substantial impression of life - especially monastic - in the 12th century.'Dr J. Hines, University of Wales, Cardiff'gives a precious insight into the soul of a mediaeval monas tery ... It is difficult to choose between the delights of this piece. Diana Greenway and Jane Sayers are to be congratulated on a translation which is plain prose, on an introduction and noteswhich really present the text, and on sub-editing the text in a way which much increases its accessibility.'Peter Hackett, Month'The translation is clear and unfussy, up-to-date but not colloquial.'Edmund King, University of Sheffield, Journal of Ecclesiastical History Study violation of the natural through a series of parallel episodes. Written over a period of almost fifty years, these works display Tolstoy's changing views on art and sexuality, women and marriage, nationalism and ethnicity, war and empire. All four novellas develop, each in its own unique way, the central Tolystoyan theme of love. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field. | The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters