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This book has been translated by Dar Al Hilal
An alternate translation of Tolstoy’s classic novella, Family Happiness, this tale revisits a theme that resonates throughout Tolstoy’s work and is perhaps best elucidated in Anna Karenina:
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
“A young woman who is still reeling from the death of her mother agrees to be wed to a much older family friend, but soon finds out that married life is not all it’s cracked up.
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic WAR AND PEACE and splendid ANNA KARENINA, but during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Reprinted here are two of his finest short novels — FAMILY HAPPINESS and MASTER AND MAN — and one short story — ALYOSHA THE POT
Alongside FAMILY HAPPINESS, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the “Summer of the Short Story.”
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