Leo Tolstoy: 582 books

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the magazine Niva as an effort to raise funds for the resettlement...

War and Peace is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina. Tolstoy himself, described War and Peace that it was 'not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical...

A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warmhearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. The adulteress and...

An alternate translation of Tolstoy's classic novella, Family Happiness, this tale revisits a theme that resonates throughout Tolstoy's work and is perhaps best elucidated in Anna Karenina: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." A young woman who is still reeling...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years of reflection about the nature and purpose of art. The book is noteworthy not only for its famous iconoclasm and compelling attacks on the aestheticist notion of "art for...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. With the resumption of Russia's military action in Chechnya in the 1990s, Hadji Murad gains new relevance, and anyone following global terrorism today will find Tolstoy's description of the nineteenth-century war all...

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

a comedy by Tolstoy in six acts. An imp is assigned by the chief devil to draw Russian peasants from God and capture them for the devil. This imp is unsuccessful but other imps are victorious, such as those assigned to bedevil lawyers and married women, especially the latter. The chief devil is very...

Although Tolstoy is best known as a master of literary fiction, he was also an important thinker with a voracious and wide-ranging intellect. In this extended look at the intersection between science and art, Tolstoy frames his own creative process in the context of thousands of years of Western philosophy.

Three classic Russian plays. According to Wikipedia: "As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life,...

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.

Leo Tolstoj (1828– 1910), was een Russische schrijverdie veel invloed heeft gehad op de Russische literatuur en politiek. Hij maakte als graaf deel uit van de Russische adel. Anna Karenina (1877) is de tweede grote roman van Tolstoj, tien jaar verschenen na zijn grote epos Oorlog en Vrede....

In this book, Tolstoy sets out his vision for a society based on Christian liberal doctrines, where all forms of violence, even violence in self-defence or revenge is prohibited. The 'Kingdom of God is Within You' became a major source of inspiration for Ghandi and his movement of passive resistance.

The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna...