Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini's novel The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year.

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects-including imaginative writing-and wrote about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education.

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In mid-life, however, he underwent a deep moral and spiritual crisis that led him back to the gospels in an effort to conform his life to the spirit of Christ. This volume focuses on his "spiritual writings" - autobiographical reflections on his journey of faith, commentaries on the gospels, and essays, on the essence of Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402711435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Tolstoy may have written some of the most expansive novels in all literature, but he also created wonderful short works, too. In a spectacularly illustrated volume that captures all the atmosphere of Tolstoy's Russia, Tolstoy scholar Donna Tussing Orwin carefully presents and annotates five of the writer's finest stories: "God Sees the Truth, But Waits," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," The Empty Drum," "The Imp and the Crust," and "Three Questions." Louise and Aylmer Maude, who knew Tolstoy personally, have translated the text.

Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Citadel Press is proud to announce the newest titles in the Wisdom Library, a collection of books showcasing the thoughts and writings of diverse literary, philosophical, political, and scientific immortals. These books deserve a place on every home bookshelf and in every student's basic library. A giant of modern literature, Tolstoy was born an aristocrat and by the age of 26 had been both a landed noble and a bloodied soldier. Disenchanted by both lives, he became a writer. The theme of this volume, excerpted from My Religion, is nonviolent resistance, a concept later embraced by Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623959136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 547

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Tolstoy's Final Novel “It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection A nobleman seeks to right a past sin and discovers he's been living in a golden world of privilege. When he visits the prison where his former maid has been sentenced, he is awakened to a world of oppression, injustice and barbarity. Resurrection is not Tolstoy's most famous novel, but it was his best-selling book. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Author: Count Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461741629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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Russian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but his reputation as a master of short fiction is richly evident in this unparalleled anthology. Here, in the largest one-volume collection available, are 36 stories of war, intrigue, treachery, murder, moral turmoil, spiritual anguish, and occasional redemption. They include early stories like the famed "Sevastopol" tales of warfare and "Lost on the Steppe;" the tour de force novellas "The Death of Ivan Ilyitch" and "The Kreutzer Sonata;" as well as folk tales, parables, realistic tales, and many lesser-known gems.

Author: Andrei Zorin
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789141990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous courtship to a deep spiritual crisis and an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. He also made several attempts to break up with literature, but each time he returned to writing. In this original and comprehensive biography, Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together the life of one of the greatest novelists of all time. He offers both an innovative account of Tolstoy’s deepest feelings, emotions, and motives, as reflected in his personal diaries and letters, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including his celebrated novels on contemporary Russian society, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and his significant philosophical writings.

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781730958915
Category :
Languages : th
Pages : 764

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Anna Karenina เป็นนวนิยายของ Leo Tolstoy ผู้เขียนชาวรัสเซียได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นครั้งแรกในรูปแบบหนังสือเมื่อปีพ. ศ. 2421 ผู้เขียนหลายคนให้ความเห็นว่า Anna Karenina เป็นงานวรรณกรรมที่ยิ่งใหญ่ที่สุดที่เคยเขียนขึ้นมาและ Tolstoy เรียกตัวเองว่านวนิยายเรื่องแรกของเขา ได้รับการปล่อยตัวครั้งแรกในงวดต่อเนื่องจาก 1873 to 1877 ในรัสเซีย The Messenger รัสเซียนวนิยายที่ซับซ้อนในแปดส่วนที่มีอักขระมากกว่าหนึ่งโหลจะกระจายไปมากกว่า 800 หน้า (ขึ้นอยู่กับการแปล) มักจะมีอยู่ในสองเล่ม มันเกี่ยวข้องกับรูปแบบของการทรยศความศรัทธาครอบครัวการแต่งงานจักรวรรดิรัสเซียสังคมความปรารถนาและชนบทกับชีวิตในเมือง แผนนี้เน้นเรื่องความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างแอนนากับเจ้าหน้าที่ทหารม้าที่นับ Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky ที่ทำให้วงการสังคมของเซนต์ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก scandalizes และบังคับให้คนรักหนุ่มสาวหนีไปหาอิตาลีในการค้นหาความสุขอย่างไร้ประโยชน์ กลับไปรัสเซียชีวิตของพวกเขาคลี่คลาย