Description: From world-renowned novelist Leo Tolstoy comes this story of a worldly careerist who must consider death for the first time and examine his own mortality. With a superb translation by Lynn Solotaroff, it features an introduction by Ronald Blythe in an exciting new package. A Bantam Classic edition.
Review Quotes: "The English-speaking world is indebted to these two translators." --Orlando Figes, The New York Review of Books
"Excellent. . . . The duo has managed to convey the rather simple elegance of Tolstoy's prose." --The New Criterion
"Pevear and Volokhonsky's new version is . . . flexible individuated, immediate." --The Nation
"Well translated. As a lover of Tolstoy's work, one couldn't ask for more, and I can't recommend it highly enough." --André Alexis, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)