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12/9/2017
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Product info / Cechy produktu
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Item type
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książka / book
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Dział / Department
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Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
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Autor / Author
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Leo Tolstoy
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Tytuł / Title
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The Cossacks and Other Early Stories
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Język / Language
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angielski
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Wydawca / Publisher
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Wordsworth
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Rok wydania / Year published
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2016
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Rodzaj oprawy / Cover type
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Miękka
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Wymiary / Size
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12.5x19.5 cm
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Liczba stron / Pages
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358
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Ciężar / Weight
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0.2500 kg
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ISBN
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9781840226911 (9781840226911)
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EAN/UPC
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9781840226911
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Stan produktu / Condition
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nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the greatest novels ever written, did not emerge from a vacuum. They were preceded by at least twenty prose works of different kinds, some of them masterpieces in their own right. These stories may be viewed as a fascinating encounter with literary predecessors such as Rousseau and Pushkin, and they are never far removed from autobiography, but in them Tolstoy can be seen forging a strong, new cultural personality. Their virtues lie in local colour, brilliant characterization and dialogue, along with strong narrative interest linked to important ideas and meanings, most of which will re-emerge in the later works.
This undervalued area of a great man’s writing deserves closer attention, and will reward the reader with unforgettable individuals, issues and situations. In The Cossacks, for example, Tolstoy succeeds in combining a realistic description of the Caucasus with his hero’s personal vision of the locality. Nor is this success the only one in this remarkable period. Reading these early stories gives a penetrating insight into the workshop of a towering literary genius.