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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyd ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination ...Show more
Hadji Murat by graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
'My personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world.' Harold Bloom
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Chechen struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling Imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him - and so Murat m ...Show more
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive soci ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated - Also included The Devil, another celebrated novella by Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich ...Show more
The Forged Coupon by Hugh (TRN) Leo; Aplin Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
Out of the initial act of counterfeiting a ruble note grows a series of evil deeds, in this, Tolstoy's last short novel. His theme is the consequences of every human action, for both good and ill: our responsibilities run deep. The escalation of evil can be stopped only by one who humbly absorbs it, wit ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompro ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: General
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
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