Leo Tolstoy
Author
Publisher
christianaudio.com
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He turns his morbid topic into hope, leading toward spiritual awakening. Tolstoy offers his readers a lifetime of perspective on a most human subject, death. // Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich is a small book with singular...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tolstoy’s romantic Anna, long-suffering Karenin, dashing Vronsky, and dozens of their family members, friends, and neighbors are among the most vivid characters in world literature. In the thought-provoking Introduction to this volume, Gary Saul Morson provides unusual insights into these characters, exploring what they reveal about Tolstoy’s radical conclusions on romantic love, intellectual dishonesty, the nature of happiness, the course of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear...
9) The death of Ivan Ilych, and other stories: Family happiness; The Kreutzer sonata; Master and man
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[c1960]
Language
English
13) Philipok
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Philipok's mother has told him that he is too young to go to school, but one day he sets out to go on his own.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
17) Anna Karenina
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
When married woman Anna falls in love with a soldier, she is given an ultimatum by her husband, the Imperial minister, and must make a choice about following her heart and losing her son or staying in her current marriage.
18) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
20) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.