This collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom-author Thomas Keneally calls this book “transcendent, and that we are grateful he lived long enough to endow us with his grand inheritance.”This is the first-ever..
Many believe Anna Karenina to be the greatest novel ever written. The impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, is set against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, illuminating the most important questions which beset humanity. This edition usesLouise and A..
At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of A..
A fresh and robust translation--which differs from the previous "softened" versions of the classic Russian novel--retells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia. Reprint. Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Pengu..
Book by Tolstoy, Leo Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Longman Pub Group Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0582448352 ISBN-13: 9780582448353..
Product Description Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of..
Unlike what the Amazon page title states, this book is the English translation NOT in Russian. 2012 Reprint of 1921 Edition. This is Tolstoy's answer to the age old question of life's meaning. As he explains, "...five years ago something very strange began to happen to me. At first I experienced mom..
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father ..
From BooklistAges 4-8. In direct, appealing language, Ann Key Beneduce retells this charming tale by a famous writer, illustrated with gorgeous pictures from just the right artist. Young Philipok wants to go to school with his older brother, Peter, but he's too small. When Mother and Father go to wo..
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over hi..
A vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of War and Peace.Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all told with the evocative power that was Tolstoy’s alone. They include “The ..
Did Merlin really exist, or is he part of a fairy tale Nikolai Tolstoy eloquently argues that the wizard Merlin did in fact exist. Through the use of diverse and rare literary sources, he shows Merlin to have been a historical figure--one of the last heirs to druidic tradition. 16 pages of black-an..
Shares Tolstoy's three articles concerning the siege of Sebastopol and his observations of conditions and atrocities during the Crimean War Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Penguin Classics Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0140444688 ISBN-13: 9780140444681..
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic.War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 an..
Details the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and his army. Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: Signet Classics Binding: mass_market Language: English ISBN-10: 0451523261 ISBN-13: 0071149009957..
The monumental Russian classic reflects the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic War Author: Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Greenwich House Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0517399938 ISBN-13: 9780517399934..
A sweeping, romantic saga of two noble families and their intertwined destiny, and a panoramic portrait of Russian society at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Tolstoy's unforgettable masterpiece has inspired love and devotion in its readers for generations.Now read the original version of Russia's m..