Tolstoy, Leo. HADJI MURçD, Translated by Aylmer Maude. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912) First American edition. Frontispiece illustration by Tennant. 8vo, publisherÕs original grey-blue cloth lettered and decorated with Caucasian motif in white and blue on the spine and upper cover. 290. A very nice, very handsome copy, only very lightly mellowed. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. TolstoyÕs final novel, reminiscent in theme and style to his earlier-pre religious writings. In it is that Ôwonderully acute power of observation which seiaed the characteristic indications both of the inner and the outer life of man; the same retentive memory; the same keen interest in life, and the same discrimination between things sympathised with and things disapproved of, ...Hadji Mur‡d is written objectively. Before he wrote it Tolstoy had become sure of himself, and felt that he had only to tell the story, and that his judgment of men and of actions would justify itself without his own point of view even needing to be explicitly stated. In the book...Tolstoy makes us feel how repugnant to him were the customary ways of the life we call civilised, with its selfishness ad sell-indulgence...with iits complete lack of spiritual fervour. Tolstoy held this novel back and it was not published until after his death. Price: USD 495.00 other currencies   order no. 13155    inquire

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