Leo Tolstoy, trans. from the Russian by Dustin Condren, Harper Perennial, $10.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-199345-9 Tolstoy's no-frills, just-the-facts-ma'am version of the life of Jesus Christ ...

When you think about the great works of Russian literature, chances are your mind immediately goes to author Leo Tolstoy. His novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina captivated readers when they ...

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A few months after finishing his short-story collection “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” George Saunders picked up Leo Tolstoy’s final work, “Hadji Murad,” for the first time. “I was diving back into ...

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