Daily Bookshot: Tolstoy to Treasure
August 10, 2009 by Rob
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Joy and jubilation at RobAroundBooks today as my eagerly anticipated 2 volume boxed-set of Leo Tolstoy’s Collected Shorter Fiction from Everyman’s Library arrived. Polythene wrapped and untouched by human hands, the smell alone when I took the wrapping off was simply divine.
A quick flick through and I know that this is a Tolstoy set that will be treasured for life
(and here’s hoping there’s room for them in my coffin too 
).
Note: Strangely I can’t locate this boxset (ISBN: 978-1857152432) on the Everyman website. Listed are the volumes (Volume I, Volume II) as individual entities, without dust jackets, but with an exquisite cover graphic.
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Rob, a self-confessed bibliophile, is without any hope of rehabilitation. He gets unnaturally excited over anything book-shaped, and if book sniffing were a crime then he would have been locked up years ago (which wouldn't bother him in the slightest provided his cell were lined with books)
Ooh, Everyman editions! I do love my Everymans. (Everymen?)
I find it funny that they call it his “shorter” fiction.
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nice looking as ever I do like everyman editions ,slowly get a few myself rob
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An ordinary edition of Tolstoy is usually enough to satisfy me – elegant hardcover editions of the short works? Such an intriguing notion… Very nice, though I’d personally probably rather the covers have some equally attractive pictures. But perhaps the simplicity attracts…?
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Rob Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Your right, for me it’s the simplicity of the Everyman’s that is its biggest draw – elegant simplicity at its finest.
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