FYI: Tolstoy Library Online

[George Fowler]

Greetings!
     Some of you will be interested to visit the Tolstoy Library Online
home page. The URL is

http://home.aol.com/Tolstoy28

>>From there you go to a page with a variety of downloadable texts by and
about Tolstoy. They're in English, unfortunately for many of us, but that's
useful too. The texts are self-extracing zipped archives; there are laconic
instructions for PC users. On the Mac side, Stuff-It Expander doesn't know
what to do with these files (although it handles non-self-expanding zipped
archives just fine), but I successfully unzipped them with Zip-It 1.3.4, a
useful utility that you can get at the major shareware sites. The one I
tried was "The Kreutzer Sonata"; it turned into a nice-looking text version
of the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation. (I have no idea if that is the
"best" English version.)
     For those of you who want Tolstoy in English, don't forget that you
can pick up the Constance Garnet translations of War and Peace and Anna
Karenina in plain text format by anonymous ftp at:

ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/corpora

     I will paste in below the text of the library's downloading page.
     George Fowler

Tolstoy Library

Tolstoy28 at aol.com

The Tolstoy Library is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of
electronic texts related to the life and work of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.

All files are self-extracting zipped files. Once you have downloaded the
file, just type the file name (for example, family for the Family Happiness
file), and it will expand itself. The following works are available for
downloading:

       Family Happiness, by Lev Tolstoy

       The Tragedy of Tolstoy, by Aleksandra Tolstaya

       Hadji Murad, by Lev Tolstoy

       Lev Tolstoy: His Life and Work, by Pavel Biryukov

       Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, by Maxim Gorky

       Miscellaneous 01

       Confession by Lev Tolstoy

       Kreutzer Sonata by Lev Tolstoy

       Information on the Tolstoy Society


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