Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions)

''How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy''s stories''
Sharon Cameron in her preface to Hadji Murad and Other Stories

This, the third volume of Tolstoy''s shorter fiction concentrates on his later stories, including one of his greatest, ''Hadji Murad''. In the stark form of homily that shapes t...