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L.N. Tolstoy
Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Contents: Master and Man; How Much Land Does a Man…
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Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The novel, The Cossacks, and the three Sevastopol sketches contained…
My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no…
After talking to Samokhin, Eugene returned to the house as depressed as if he had committed a crime. In the first place she had understood him, believed that he wanted…
From Tolstoy’s numerous religious tales, compiler Lawrence Jordan has compiled three accessible and lovely Christian stories in a collection that retains the Russian feel and captures Tolstoy’s spirituality. A thorough…
Originally published: With What I believe. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
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Rich in detail, shrewdly observed, and vividly narrated, these 6 tales include Three Deaths, The Three Hermits, The Devil, Father Sergius, Master and Man, and the title story.
Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!
The Kingdom of God Is Within You set in motion the spiritual revolution in Ghandi, and helped make him the man he was. Tolstoy was a powerful spiritual revolutionary……
So now with the theory that an economic evolution is progressing, guided by inevitable laws, in consequence of which some people must collect capital, and others must labor all their…
P 1854 Sergieenko,Isabel Florence Hapgood
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay ‘What Is Art’, by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf…
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The Pathway of Life is Tolstoy’s posthumous message to an erring and suffering world. Never since the days when Christ’s message from heaven brought life and comfort to a war-torn…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
He took the coupon out of his purse to show to his new friend. The yard-porter was an illiterate man, but he said he had had such coupons given him…
The old woman burst forth into injurious words, interrupted by a cough. At that moment, an old man, all clad in rags, and as white as snow, came down the…
ONCE upon a time, in a certain province of a certain country, there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons: Simon the Soldier, Taras the Stout, and Ivan the…
And Simon and Matryona understood who it was that had lived with them, and whom they had clothed and fed. And they wept with awe and with joy. And the…
THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417913304.
Written over a period of more than half a century, this volume include short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook.
Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists, Tolstoy’s major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina . This volume contains Part II of Anna Karenina…
Tolstoy’s collected works number 90 and critics regard War and Peace and Anna Karenina as his two masterpieces. Following the publication of Anna Karenina , his life had undergone a…
The sun shone warm- the air was balmy; everywhere where it did not get scraped away- the grass revived and sprang up between the paving-stones as well as on the…
From the time of our arrival in Moscow, the change in my conception of objects, of persons, and of my connection with them became increasingly perceptible. When at my first…
Karl Ivanitch was in a bad temper, This was clear from his contracted brows, and from the way in which he flung his frockcoat into a drawer, angrily donned his…
For some weeks Father Sergius had been living with one persistent thought: whether he was right in accepting the position in which he had not so much placed himself as…
This Hadji Murad was Shamil’s naib, famous for his exploits, who used never to ride out without his banner and some dozens of murids, who caracoled and showed off before…
But this is unjust. I not only do not repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true art and true science, I say that which…
THIS 78 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Cossacks, Sevastopol, The Invaders and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417917644.
A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier.
Set in mid-19th-century Russia, this book tells the story of a married woman’s passion for a young officer and of her tragic fate.
This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy’s historical chronicle of Russia’s struggle with Napoleon. The novel is an affirmation of life itself, focusing on the lives of individuals and…
L.N. Tolstoy,Ilya Tolstoy
Reminiscences of Tolstoy is a memoir written by the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The book is a collection of reminiscences and personal anecdotes about the author's life, his thoughts…
Features three of Tolstoy’s well-known plays - Redemption , The Power of Darkness , and Fruits of Culture . Tolstoy’s other major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina…
Translated by V. Tchertkoff and A. C. Fifield. Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This volume…
Contrasts the teachings of Jesus to the dogma and practices of the Orthodox Church.
L.N. Tolstoy,L. Solotaroff
A middle-aged judge, who had never thought about his own mortality, must readjust his thinking when he learns he has a terminal illness.
IN an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare.
In 1879 Leo Tolstoy reached a state of spiritual crisis, believing that he had accomplished nothing, and that his life was meaningless. This account of an individual’s struggle for faith…
The text of this revised edition of Tolstoy’s novel is based upon the 1939 translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The editor has made several textual changes and has revised…
This Critical Edition is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon’s campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of War and Peace , selections…
Comprises translations of Tolstoy’s work providing an insight into Tolstoy’s life and his development as a writer.
Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This volume contains, in addition to the two dramas, The…
THIS 54 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417923210.
THIS 188 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417923210.
THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417923210.
THIS 108 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Dramatic Works of Leo Tolstoy, by Leo Tolstoy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417923202.
