A collection of translated plays from Tolstoy.
I gathered myself a large nosegay and was going home when I noticed in a ditch, in full bloom, a beautiful thistle plant of the crimson variety, which in our neighborhood they call “Tartar” and carefully avoid when mowing—or, ...
Tolstoy: Literary Fragments, Letters and Reminiscences Not Previously Published
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Presents biographical, criticial, and bibliographical information on the author's best-known or most important works.
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Disenchanted by both lives, he became a writer. The theme of this volume, excerpted from My Religion, is nonviolent resistance, a concept later embraced by Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
This vigorous, engrossing biography presents in fascinating depth and detail the many ways in which Sophia Tolstoy enriched the life and work of one of the world’s most revered authors.
In his love Levin raises Kitty to the divine: to her he will reveal his guilt, and by her he will be forgiven. In Kitty he will find reconciliation. But at the beginning of his story Levin understands his sins as sexual transgression ...
The works of Leo Tolstoy are collected here with a biography about the life and times of Leo Tolstoy.
Leo Tolstoy - Selected Works