This riverrun edition presents a master Russian storyteller whose fierce gift for intimate address summons the wholeness of life on every page. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose versions were those in which many of Tolstoy's best-known and most influential works were first read in English.

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) is regarded as one of the greatest Russian writers of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. He is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.