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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute
What's a "shorter novel" by Tolstoy? 700 pages? 
I've yet to read any Tolstoy but I want to read his works. Gotta expand my horizons.
My favorite is still The Count of Monte Cristo. Revenge is fun. |
His greatest short novels in my opinion are Hadji Murad, The Cossacks, and The Kreutzer Sonata. But they're all great. They're all collected in this volume.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Short-To...5559673&sr=1-1
The three novels I listed are darker and more psychological than even Anna Karenina, certainly more so than War and Peace. By Hadji Murad, which is a war novel and was published postumously, he had lost all of his starry eyed admiration for Russian nobility and royalty and the Church. Bloom, by the way, thinks Hadji Murad is his greatest. It's partly about Islam and Islamic culture.