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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20030412
Author:Allan Massie

Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy Hesperus pounds 6.99

HADJI Murat is a novella on which Tolstoy worked intermittently between 1896 and 1904. It wasn't published till after is death, and it seems that, on account of its harsh and contemptuous portrait of the Tsar Nicholas I, he didn't believe it could be published at all. In any case he never gave it a final revision and he also wrote it at a time when he had turned against fiction.

Yet it is a little masterpiece. All the essential Tolstoyan qualities are here: his wonderfully just appreciation of character; his generosity of spirit; his authority; ...

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