Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 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 and his mean-spirited son.
Скачать книгу (размер 7 256 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1424) Аннотация: The monumental novel considered one of the greatest ever written is an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 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 his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina», commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 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 Murad, 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 Murad was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, «Childhood», the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy’s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the “poetry” of childhood — the intense emotions, confusions, and fears…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: Written over a period of more than half a century, these stories reflect every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth adn simplicity, and, above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from novellas like The Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: The only comprehensive hardcover edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction — 57 stories and novellas, including two that have never before appeared in English. In these two handsome volumes, every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his belief in truth and simplicity, and above…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 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 his thinking on the role of art and music in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the frontiers of nineteenth-century Russia — completed in 1862, when Tolstoy was in his early thirties — has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, The Cossacks is lean and supple, economical in design and execution.
Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn’t experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings — on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality — reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes «A Confession», «Religion and Morality», «What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?» and «The Law of Love and the Law of Violence».
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, «Anna Karenina» portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would…