Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), best known for his great novels, 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', had very strong convictions that he addressed directly in these letters and papers.
Provides a compilation of five of the famous Russian author's short works, including "The Empty Drum" and "The Imp and the Crust."
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
He went up to Anna Pávlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia ...
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 ...
An introduction to the high humanitarian ideas of the great Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy.
Pierre has it, but Prince Andrew does not; and it is the source of the difficulties he finds in getting on with ordinary life, and with women like his wife, the Little Princess. She herself has a vibrantly joyous and sociable ...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post.
His two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are among the best loved in world literature. Anthony Briggs compares these works and describes many others.
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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, ...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post.
Best known for his two longest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (in full Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.Born in 1828, Leo Tolstoy came from an ...
ABOUT THE BOOK Leo Tolstoy is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the western canon.
A concise, succinct study of Tolstoy's novels, short stories, essays, etc.
In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the course of Tolstoy's educational thought, and how it relates to Tolstoy's fiction and other writings.
Presents biographical, criticial, and bibliographical information on the author's best-known or most important works.
LEO TOLSTOY: The Complete Novels and Novellas (the Greatest Writers of All Time Book 12).
"Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In mid-life, however, he underwent a deep moral and spiritual crisis that...