Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Slavery of Our Times is a socially critical pamphlet written by Tolstoy in 1900. In this work, Tolstoy describes the miserable situation of the laborers in the plants of Russia. He writes that people work for thirty-six hours in succession and suffer from the tyranny exerted by their masters. In the pamphlet, Tolstoy demands the conditions of a decent life be created for those people.
The Slavery of Our Times
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Slavery of Our Times is a socially critical pamphlet written by Tolstoy in 1900. In this work, Tolstoy describes the miserable situation of the laborers in the plants of Russia. He writes that people work for thirty-six hours in succession and suffer from the tyranny exerted by their masters. In the pamphlet, Tolstoy demands the conditions of a decent life be created for those people.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Slavery of Our Times is a socially critical pamphlet written by Tolstoy in 1900. In this work, Tolstoy describes the miserable situation of the laborers in the plants of Russia. He writes that people work for thirty-six hours in succession and suffer from the tyranny exerted by their masters. In the pamphlet, Tolstoy demands the conditions of a decent life be created for those people.
The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The First Step
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Resurrection
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623959136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
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
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623959136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
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
Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375412875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Iván Ilých, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man, and Hadji Murád will recognize the brilliant novelist now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness. Aylmer and Louise Maude’s classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375412875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist. Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals how Tolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Iván Ilých, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man, and Hadji Murád will recognize the brilliant novelist now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness. Aylmer and Louise Maude’s classic translations are supplemented by new translations by Nigel J. Cooper of six stories, including two that have never before appeared in English.
Tolstoy's Diaries
Author: Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571269044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571269044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
War and peace
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435139626
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435139626
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
Lives and Deaths
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
ISBN: 178227541X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life. These are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.
Publisher: Pushkin Collection
ISBN: 178227541X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Fresh translations of Tolstoy's four richest shorter works by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk Tolstoy's stories contain many of the most acutely observed moments in his monumental body of work. This new selection of his shorter works, sensitively translated by the award-winning Boris Dralyuk, showcases the peerless economy with which Tolstoy could render the passions and conflicts of a life. These are works that take us from a self-interested judge's agonising deathbed to the bristling social world of horses in a stable yard, from the joyful vanity of youth to the painful doubts of sickness and old age. With unwavering precision, Tolstoy's eye brings clarity and richness to the simplest materials.
Twenty-Three Tales
Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602069034
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Twenty-three Tales is a masterful collection of children's tales, fairy tales, and short stories from one of the world's greatest and most influential writers. The collection includes: . "God Sees the Truth, but Waits" . "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" . "The Bear-Hunt" . "What Men Live By" . "A Spark Neglected Burns the House" . "Two Old Men" . "Where Love Is, God Is" . "The Story of Ivan the Fool" . "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" . "Little Girls Wiser Than Men" . "Ilys" . "The Three Hermits" . "The Imp and The Crust" . "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" . "A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg" . "The Godson" . "The Repentant Sinner" . "The Empty Drum" . "The Coffee-house of Surat" . "Too Dear!" . "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" . "Work, Death and Sickness, A Legend" . "Three Questions" Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602069034
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Twenty-three Tales is a masterful collection of children's tales, fairy tales, and short stories from one of the world's greatest and most influential writers. The collection includes: . "God Sees the Truth, but Waits" . "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" . "The Bear-Hunt" . "What Men Live By" . "A Spark Neglected Burns the House" . "Two Old Men" . "Where Love Is, God Is" . "The Story of Ivan the Fool" . "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" . "Little Girls Wiser Than Men" . "Ilys" . "The Three Hermits" . "The Imp and The Crust" . "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" . "A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg" . "The Godson" . "The Repentant Sinner" . "The Empty Drum" . "The Coffee-house of Surat" . "Too Dear!" . "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria" . "Work, Death and Sickness, A Legend" . "Three Questions" Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).