Tolstoy: 707 books

Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician, his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous...

ÆSOP'S FABLES THE ANT AND THE DOVE An Ant came down to the brook: he wanted to drink. A wave washed him down and almost drowned him. A Dove was carrying a branch; she saw the Ant was drowning, so she cast the branch down to him in the brook. The Ant got up on the branch and was saved. Then a hunter...

The Foundling The Peasant and the Cucumbers The Fire The Old Horse How I Learned to Ride The Willow Búlka Búlka and the Wild Boar Pheasants Milton and Búlka The Turtle Búlka and the Wolf What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk Búlka's and Milton's End The Gray Hare God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once Hunting Worse than Slavery A Prisoner of the Caucasus Ermák

"Yalan, ölümün arifesinde çevresini kaplayan bu yalan; korkunç, muhteşem ölüm olayını ziyaretleriyle örtmeye çalışarak, yenmeye hazırlanan mersin balıkları düzeyine indirdikleri bu yalan, İvan İlyiç için son derece acı vericiydi. İşin tuhafı, çevresindekiler ona bu...

Russie, 1880. Anna Karénine, est une jeune femme de la haute société de Saint-Pétersbourg. Elle est mariée à Alexis Karénine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration impériale, un personnage austère et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garçon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend à Moscou chez son frère...

Three peasants come to the husband's house and beseech the husband to sell them land. He consults the spirits and, based upon what he understands is their reply, refuses. The peasants beg him saying that they need the land to sustain their life, but their plea does not help. One of the peasants is...

Fdya promises his wife and Victor that he will arrange that they can marry. However, he finds that he cannot lie and say that he had sex and pay witnesses to lie that he did so. He decides to keep his promise by killing himself, but discovers that he cannot do this either. So he decides to fake his death by drowning.

Leo makes an excellent case for peace. Even in the face of annihilation, this books makes you see the value in not fighting. The modern church has skewed the words of Jesus, Leo sets it straight.

In 1884 I wrote a book entitled "My Religion," wherein I formulated my creed. While affirming my faith in the doctrine taught by Christ, I could not refrain from manifesting at the same time the reason why I look upon the ecclesiastical doctrine commonly called Christianity as erroneous,...

Comment la frustration et la jalousie dans les relations conjugales peuvent-elles mener au meurtre? D'où vient cette rancoeur qui empoisonne la vie de tant de couples, parfois dès les premiers temps du mariage? À travers ce récit d'une véritable descente aux enfers, celle de Pozdnychev, assassin...

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple...

Posdnyschew, Mörder seiner Frau, frühzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervösem Gebaren, hört auf einer längeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden über Liebe als Grundbedingung für eine glückliche Ehe diskutieren – eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, häßlichen, rauchenden...

Everybody likes to shake up things a little. Inside most creators (book author, poet, film-maker, painter) lies a spirit that would risk the fate of their own works (and lives) just to be able to “rattle the cages” that we, most of the time, use instead of our heads. This is how comes that books...