Search Results: A Great Iniquity by Leo Tolstoy

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-09-24. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 8x0x11. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-09-24. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition of this translation. Translated by V. Tchertkoff and I.F. Mayo. Stapled self-wrappers. 38pp. Crease on rear wrap, faint spotting and small stains on front wrap, about very good.

London: The Free Age Press. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. [c1905]. Softcover. Covers rubbed and dust-soiled. Quite heavy foxing. 2" tear along paper spine. Small chip at tail of spine. ; 39 pages + [3] pages advertisements + frontispiece. Green printed paper covers. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. Text in English, translated by V. Tchertkoff and Isabella Fyvie Mayo. Land reform, the land question. "The land question has at the present time reached such a state of ripeness as fifty years ago was reached by the question of serfdom" - page 33. With a three page note by Mayo on pp. 37-39 - "It is undoubtedly the case that in Great Britain the land question is at present much obscured by difficulties which really have their origin in it." .

The Free Age Press, [1905]. First edition thus; 4 3/4 x 7; pp. [5], 4-39, [1]; original stapled green wraps; closed cut to head of spine and a small nick to fore-edge of back cover; few scattered spots of foxing to first page only; small signature to upper margin of front cover; portrait frontis; very good or better.Tolstoy on land ownership in Russia and the despair of common people for the "insufficiency of land for the maintenance of most of them" and the slavery imposed by "the landed gentry, and merchants..."

London: The Free Age Press, n.d. First English edition of Tolstoy's work on peasant welfare in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time, Leo Tolstoy is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. Tolstoy had a profound moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870's which he outlined in My Confession, My Religion, and numerous articles and essay included in the present volume.