Sebastopol
Count Leo Tolstoï · 1887
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Description
Count Leo Tolstoi wrote Sebastopol, here in an English version made from the French by Frank Millet, printed in New York in 1887. Howells, the American novelist, adds an introduction. A portrait of Tolstoi, as the name was then spelled in English, fronts the book.
Howells owns a sense of lunar remoteness in the Russian's far-off home at Yasnaya Polyana. Yet no author, he says, has written more faithfully of the life common to all men. The tales themselves come from the siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean War, where young Tolstoi served as an officer. His scenes of the bastions, the hospitals, and the men under fire made his first fame. They are war writing without varnish, close and true.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Count Leo Tolstoï |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1887 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 240 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |