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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Alma Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials fo ...Show more
A Calendar of Wisdom: Annotated Edition by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Essays & Letters
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyd ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination ...Show more
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against ...Show more
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy; T. C. B. Cook (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published by the author after his crisis and conversion to Christianity. The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five, of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, it ...Show more
Hadji Murat by graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'My personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world.' Harold Bloom
How Much Land Does A Man Need? : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich : Penguin Little Black Classic no. 87 by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask- is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompro ...Show more