REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) — Maxim Gorky—Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others — Dover ($2.75). The grey old man was surely “the sounding bell of this world,” wrote Russian Novelist ...

The children’s book, written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth, follows a young boy named Nikolai who is determined to be the best person he can be but isn’t quite sure if he’s on the right path. He ...

Most people would not consider “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble” to be a nursery rhyme. But Utah children’s author Jennifer Adams does. Adams and illustrator Alison ...

Leo Tolstoy was the fourth son of Count Nikolai Tolstoy, a Russian nobleman whose family had been elevated and enriched during the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II. He knew little of his mother, who ...

Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...

Tolstoy’s books are full of insights that rate a great deal more attention. All of which brings us to the love story aspect of the novel. While the novel’s namesake touches every character in the book ...

For mountain climbers, one imagines that Mt. Everest looms as the ultimate climb to validate one’s ability. For runners, it would be the Boston Marathon, for triathletes the Iron Man? Which meant I ...