LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy

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  • War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 1400079985
    • ISBN: 1400079985
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters... [Read More]

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 0307388867
    • ISBN: 0307388867
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales

    • ASIN: 1570754608
    • ISBN: 1570754608
    • Brand: Orbis Books
    • Manufacturer: Orbis Books

    Uncluttered by the complexities of plot and character that daunt so many readers of the longer Russian masterpieces, Tolstoy's tales illumine eternal truths with the forceful brevity. While inspired by the sense of spiritual certainty, their narrative quality, subtle humor, and visionary power lift them far above the common run of "religious" liter... [Read More]

  • Anna Karenina

    • UPC: 042516142737
    • ASIN: 0143035002
    • ISBN: 0143035002
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060586974
    • ISBN: 0060586974
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any l... [Read More]

  • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts

    • ASIN: 0684837935
    • ISBN: 0684837935
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illumina... [Read More]

  • Tolstoy: A Biography

    • ASIN: 0393321223
    • ISBN: 0393321223
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    "Must surely rank among the most impressively intelligent biographies ever written."―Zena Sutherland, The Economist In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius af... [Read More]

  • Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)

    • ASIN: 1853262714
    • ISBN: 9781853262715
    • Brand: Leo Tolstoy
    • Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

    Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses t... [Read More]

  • The Three Questions [Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy]

    • ASIN: 0439199964
    • ISBN: 0439199964
    • Brand: Scholastic Press
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

  • Family Happiness and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: 0486440818
    • ISBN: 9780486440811
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    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 charac... [Read More]

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Vintage Classics)

    • ASIN: 0307951332
    • ISBN: 0307951332
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and childre... [Read More]

  • A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140444734
    • ISBN: 9780140444735
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    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... [Read More]

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy [New edition with best navigation & active TOC] (FLT Classics - Leo Tolstoy Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0058E55NA
    • Manufacturer: FLT

  • Anna Karenina

    • ASIN: B01FN887G2
    • Manufacturer: Audible Studios

    Winner: Audible's Best of 2016 - Classic "Anna Karenina is one of my favorite books. But when I agreed to read it for Audible, I had no idea how much work it would be, how intense it would be, and how deeply I would fall in love with it. There were places where I thought 'if I don't give Alexey Alexandrovitch the respect that he deserves in my re... [Read More]

  • My Religion - What I Believe

    • ASIN: 1907355235
    • ISBN: 1907355235
    • Manufacturer: White Crow Books

    'My Confession' is Tolstoy's chronicle of his journey to faith; his account of how he moved from despair to the possibility of living; from unhappy existence to 'the glow and strength of life'. It describes his spiritual and philosophical struggles up until he leaves the Orthodox Church, convinced that humans discover truth not by faith, but by rea... [Read More]

  • 7 best short stories by Leo Tolstoy

    • ASIN: 8577779866
    • ISBN: 8577779866
    • Manufacturer: Tacet Books

    Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian author best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina which are considered to be the greatest novels of realist fiction. Tolstoy is also regarded as world's best novelist by many. In addition to writing novels, Tolstoy also authored short stories, essays and plays. Also a moral thinker and a social ... [Read More]

  • War and Peace (3 Volume Set)

    • ASIN: 0679405739
    • ISBN: 0679405739
    • Brand: Everymans Library
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

    Three-Volume Boxed SetTranslated by Louise and Aylmer MaudeWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, wh... [Read More]

  • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140449175
    • ISBN: 0140449175
    • Brand: PENGUIN GROUP
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is translated by award-winning duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky in Penguin Classics. Starring Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method) as Anna Karenina, Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes) as her husband Alexei, Aaron J... [Read More]

  • My Confession (perfect layout, illustrated, annotated) (Best Illustrated Books Book 24)

    • ASIN: B00A7B2QX6

    "My Confession" is a book by Leo Tolstoy. It belongs to his works dedicated to the subject of religion. This book includes original illustrations of the story.Here are some passages from this book:"And I ceased to doubt, and became fully convinced that not all was true in the religion I had joined. Formerly I should have said that it was all false,... [Read More]

  • What Is Art? (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140446427
    • ISBN: 9780140446425
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art must be a fo... [Read More]

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