Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy: 51 books

The first published novel by Leo Tolstoy released in November 1852. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan...

At the height of his fame Tolstoy experienced a crisis of meaning.  He said that he contemplated suicide and could no longer live unless he could find the meaning of his life. He wrote about the crisis in a short work, “A Confession,” which was written in 1882 and first published in 1884. Tolstoy...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and ​in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the...

FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of contents The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his...

"Youth" is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including "Childhood" and "Boyhood", published in a literary journal during the 1850s.  It is a vibrant account of a young person’s emerging awareness of the world, himself, and the...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 1 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : *Crime and Punishment - *Fyodor Dostoyevsky *Don Quixote - *Miguel de Cervantes *Hamlet - *William Shakespeare *Madame Bovary - *Gustave Flaubert *Moby-Dick - *Herman Melville *Pride and Prejudice - *Jane Austen *The...

The Power of Darkness, Tolstoy's first and greatest play, was not written until he was fifty-eight years of age, and it was not allowed to be performed in Russia till some years later. Both there and elsewhere abroad it was highly successful on the stage, as was also the comedy, Fruits of Culture, which he wrote three years later, to be performed by his own family and their friends.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The winter had dragged by, sad and sombre, in our old country-house of Pokrovski. The weather had been cold, and so windy that the snow was often piled high above our windows; the panes were almost always cloudy with a coating of ice; and throughout the whole season we were shut in, rarely finding it...

CHARACTERS A PEASANT. HIS WIFE. MOTHER. GRANDFATHER. LITTLE DAUGHTER. A NEIGHBOUR. FOUR VILLAGE ELDERS. OLD WOMEN, WOMEN, GIRLS AND LADS

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