Leo Tolstoj

The Kingdom of God Is Within You is a non-fiction book written by Leo Tolstoy. A philosophical treatise, the book was first published in Germany in 1894 after being banned in his home country of Russia. It is the culmination of thirty years of Tolstoy's thinking, and lays out a new organization for society based on a …

A Confession is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was of late-middle age.

Dissatisfied with his life of frivolity among the aristocracy of Moscow, young Dmitri Andreyevitch Oleynin sets out for the Caucasus region. Here, among the natural beauty of his surroundings and the honest and industrious peasant people, Oleynin hopes to obtain a more meaningful existence. Yet Oleynin is marked out …

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 language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted in one …

Boyhood, adolescence, and youth is a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels (1855-1858).

Oorlog en vrede is een roman van de Russische schrijver Leo Tolstoj, dat gaat over de oorlogen tussen Rusland en Frankrijk onder Napoleon.

Oorlog en vrede is een roman van de Russische schrijver Leo Tolstoj, dat gaat over de oorlogen tussen Rusland en Frankrijk onder Napoleon.

This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which …

On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy. Nikolay Dobrolyubov was critical of On the Eve, offending Turgenev.

Anna Karenina is de tweede grote roman van Tolstoj, tien jaar verschenen na zijn grote epos Oorlog en Vrede. De hoofdpersoon, Anna Karenina, wordt hopeloos verliefd op de jonge graaf Vronski. In het boek komen drie dramatische gebeurtenissen op een spoorwegstation voor. De roman verscheen als een serie in het …