On life : a critical edition / Leo Tolstoy ; edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya ; translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya.
| Author/creator | Tolstoy, Leo author. |
| Other author | Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, 1964- editor, translator. |
| Other author | Denner, Michael A. translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | xii, 246 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | O zhizni. English |
| Contents | 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 -- Vladimir Soloviev's unsent letter to Tolstoy (circa 1889-90) -- Nikolai Grot's comparison of On life with Nietzsche's writings -- Letter to the editor from P. K. Novitskaya. |
| General note | "On Life originally completed in Russian under the title O zhizni (1886-87)." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2018025731 |
| ISBN | 9780810138032 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0810138034 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780810138049 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0810138042 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |