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1) Resurrection
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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs Translated by Louise Maude This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution....
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León Tolstói (1828-1910) es reconocido como uno de los escritores más importantes de la novela rusa y de la literatura mundial. Nacido en una antigua familia de la nobleza, sus obras constituyen un fiel reflejo de la sociedad rusa de la época, convirtiéndolo en uno de los representantes más reconocidos del realismo.
En "Anna Karenina" (que empezó a publicarse como un folletín en 1875, y se publicaría por primera vez entera en 1877), Tolstói...
3) The Devil
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The Devil is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1911, after the write's death. It tells the story of a married landowner slowly overcome with unrelenting sexual desire for one of the peasants on his estate. Before his marriage, he had many sexual relationships with women while living in St. Petersburg. He inherited an estate in the country after the death of his father and he decided to leave the city. In his new life, he lives with his mother....
4) Guerra y paz
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Es una de las obras cumbres de la literatura rusa y sin lugar a dudas de la literatura universal. Se considera uno de los mejores logros literarios de Tolstói y sigue siendo un clásico de la literatura mundial alabado internacionalmente.
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Léon Tolstoï est né en 1828 dans une petite ville de Russie. Son enfance est frappée par le malheur, consécutivement, il subit la perte de sa mère puis de son père et de sa grand-mère. Son tempérament, très sensible, l'amène à se poser très jeune des questions sur les inégalités sociales qu'il voit autour de lui. Il se fait soldat et les scènes de guerre auxquelles il participe seront la source de son roman le plus connu Guerre et...
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The novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy was published in 1886 and is considered a masterpiece of his late period fiction. It tells the story of a high-court judge in nineteenth century Russia. He lives a simple, carefree life with his family until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Confined to bed, he is disgusted that his family avoids the subject of his death by pretending that he is only sick and not dying. He finds comfort...
7) Ilyas
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A story of a successful farmer Ilyas who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to loose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness however only after loosing all his possessions and achieving peace for himself and his wife. Read in English, unabridged.
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Father Sergius is a short story by Leo Tolstoy and was published in 1911. It tells the story of a young prince — known as Stepan Kasatsky - who becomes a priest. In the court, he falls in love with Countess Mary Korotkova and becomes engaged to her. But soon he discovers his fiancée was once a mistress to the emperor, Tsar Nicholas I.
This incident devastates him and he decides to leave the court and becomes a monk. As he is an ambitious high...
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This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Stories as different as “The Snowstorm”, “Lucerne”, “The Diary of a Madman”, and “The Devil” are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the...
10) Der Überfall
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Die eindringliche Erzählung über falschen Mut und wahre Tapferkeit in Zeiten der Gefahr aus dem Frühwerk des großen russischen Schriftstellers.
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889. It tells the story of a man who killed his wife because of jealousy. The story begins on a train. Passengers start a conversation about the nature and purpose of marriage. Among them, there is a strange man who is nervous and uncommunicative. A lawyer on the train brings up the case of Pozdnyshev, a man who murdered his wife but was acquitted at trial. The strange man breaks his silence...
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Blending fact and fiction, this trilogy by a very young Tolstoy centres on the inner life of Nikolai as he navigates the universal challenge of growing up. In relating his thoughts and feelings, his self-awareness and embarrassing mistakes, the work is timeless: regardless of era, location and environment, we are given an unvarnished portrait of one boy - both self-important and self-deprecating - as he tries to find his place in the world. The sense...
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The Kreutzer Sonata, one of the most controversial novels written by Leo Tolstoy. It was named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and attracted immediate attention of censors on both sides of the Atlantic when it first appeared. The narrative follows the main character, Pozdnyshev who relates the events leading up to his killing his wife.
14) Hadji Murad
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First published in 1914 after Leo Tolstoy's death, "Hadji Murad" was the author's last novel. Drawing upon his own experiences fighting for the Russian army, historical archives, and the true story of the real-life Hadji Murad, the story is a narrative based on actual events that occurred during the Russian war with the Chechens during the 1850's. "Hadji Murad" focuses on the life and struggles of its central character, a Chechen soldier who breaks...
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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?...
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Written from 1852 to 1856, this autobiographical novel was Tolstoy's first publication. The early life of Nikolai, the son of wealthy landowner in Russia, is fully explored, slowly revealing this young boy's inner mind, relationships, and social standing. As he describes his tutor, angelic mother, aloof father, worldly brother, and later his moralistic friend, Nikolai displays a mind given to dreaming and a personality as complex as it is conflicted....
17) Sevastopol
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After his involvement in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-55), Leo Tolstoy decided to write this collection of three fictional sketches about the experience. "Sevastopol in December" takes the reader on a tour of the city, including a makeshift hospital with wounded soldiers. "Sevastopol in May" and "Sevastopol in August" continue the narrative, analyzing what war is-futile, he concludes.
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Bog pravdu vidit da ne skoro skazhet, a veces traducido como Exiliado en Siberia y El largo exilio) es un relato corto del autor ruso Leo Tolstoy publicado por primera vez en 1872. La historia, sobre un hombre enviado a prisión por un asesinato que no cometió, adopta la forma de una parábola sobre el perdón.
El concepto de la historia de un hombre acusado injustamente de asesinato y desterrado a Siberia también aparece en una de las obras anteriores...
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This early work by Tolstoy, published in 1863, is based on his own experiences serving with the army in the Caucasus region in the 1850s. A young Russian, Dimitry Olenin, leaves his cultured life in Moscow in search of authentic experiences among the untamed Cossacks. What he finds will change his life forever.
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Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of the short story and the long story--the particularly Russian form known as povest'. Each of the tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, vivid narration, and startling truths that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. Two unusual, intriguing short stores - "Three Deaths" and "The Three Hermits"...
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