This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
A Calendar of Wisdom, or Path of life or A Cycle of Readings or Wise Thoughts for Every Day is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 that was published in three different editions. An English translation by Archibald J. Wolfe of the first Russian edition, which was organized …
Guerra e pace è un romanzo storico di Lev Tolstoj. Pubblicato per la prima volta tra il 1865 ed il 1869 sulla rivista Russkij Vestnik, riguarda la storia di due famiglie, i Bolkonskij e i Rostov, durante la campagna napoleonica in Russia. Tolstoj paragonava la sua opera alle grandi creazioni omeriche, e nella sua …