New York: The Modern Library, 2003. In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil's prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he...
Translated from Russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude. "Father Sergius" (Russian: Father Sergius, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a short story written between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve...
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The Cossacks (Russian: Cossacks [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. The Cossacks is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. Tolstoy had a morally corrupt...
Translated from the Russian By William E. Smith. — New York: Street & Smith, Publishers, 1900. The Awakening (The Resurrection) (Russian: Resurrection, Voskreseniye), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a...
Publication details not specified. Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett. Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing — something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would...
"Youth" (Russian: Yunost' [Yunost']; 1857) is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following "Childhood" and "Boyhood". It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik.
"Boyhood" (Russian: Boyhood, Otrochestvo) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following "Childhood" and followed by "Youth". The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.
"Childhood" (Russian: Childhood, Detstvo) is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. 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,...
Oxford: Oxford Press, 1998. Translation: Louise and Aylmer Maude Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in...
Oxford: Oxford Press, 1998. Translation: Louise and Aylmer Maude Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in...
Oxford: Oxford Press, 1998. Translation: Louise and Aylmer Maude Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in...
Annotated Classics, 2013. — 4665 p. * Illustrated with the original images. * Annotated with concise introduction, including analysis of Leo Tolstoy's works as well as modern view on Tolstoy's historical background. * Original footnotes are hyperlinked for easy reference. * The collection includes alphabetical and chronological indexes of Tolstoy's works. * Each book features...
Modern Library, 2007. — 128 p. When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and...
Literature for reading in English - 6th level. 1865 1,423 p. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not...
2,299 p. ‘Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that AntichristI really believe he is AntichristI will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call...
The Kreutzer Sonata. Lesson of "The Kreutzer Sonata." Ivan the Fool. A Lost Opportunity. "Polikushka" or, The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. The Candle. The Kreutzer Sonata: During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and...
The Kreutzer Sonata. Lesson of "The Kreutzer Sonata." Ivan the Fool. A Lost Opportunity. "Polikushka" or, The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. The Candle. The Kreutzer Sonata: During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and...
The Kreutzer Sonata. Lesson of "The Kreutzer Sonata." Ivan the Fool. A Lost Opportunity. "Polikushka" or, The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. The Candle. The Kreutzer Sonata: During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks "what is love?" and...
Signet Classics. Translated by Ann Dunnican. With a New introduction by Pat Conroy. Orphaned at age nine, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty, serving as a junior officer in the...
Lit format. Signet Classics. Translated by Ann Dunnican. With a New introduction by Pat Conroy. Orphaned at age nine, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty, serving as a junior officer...
Signet Classics. Translated by Ann Dunnican. With a New introduction by Pat Conroy. Orphaned at age nine, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty, serving as a junior officer in the...
Signet Classics. Translated by Ann Dunnican. With a New introduction by Pat Conroy. Orphaned at age nine, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty, serving as a junior officer in the...
Penguin Books. A New Translation by Anthony Briggs. With Introduction by Orlando Figes. Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Penguin Books. A New Translation by Anthony Briggs. With Introduction by Orlando Figes. Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Penguin Books. A New Translation by Anthony Briggs. With Introduction by Orlando Figes. Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Penguin Books. A New Translation by Anthony Briggs. With Introduction by Orlando Figes. Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
New York, 2007. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volochonsky. Introduction by Richard Pevear. Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war....
New York, 2007. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volochonsky. Introduction by Richard Pevear. Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war....
New York, 2007. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volochonsky. Introduction by Richard Pevear. Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war....
New York, 2007. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volochonsky. Introduction by Richard Pevear. Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war....
Oxford University Press, 1998. Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a...
Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. Wordsworth Classics. Complete and Unabridged. If you have only seen the movies of Anna Karenina you have missed over half the story. This is a long novel and is much more than the love story of the married Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. The book also focuses on the courtship of Kitty and Levin. There are views of life in Moscow, St....
Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995. Wordsworth Classics. Complete and Unabridged. If you have only seen the movies of Anna Karenina you have missed over half the story. This is a long novel and is much more than the love story of the married Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. The book also focuses on the courtship of Kitty and Levin. There are views of life in Moscow, St....
The Kreutzer Sonata (English: Kreutzer Sonata, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates...
Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which holds the mirror up...
Publication details not specified. Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create...