युद्ध और शान्ति रूस के प्रसिद्ध लेखक लेव तालस्तोय द्वारा रचित उपन्यास है। यह पहली बार १८६९ में प्रकाशित हुआ था। यह एक विशाल रचना है और विश्व साहित्य की महानतम रचनाओं में इसकी गणना होती …
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and affection...vanity and love -- one by one, in this volume of great …
Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her …
युद्ध और शान्ति रूस के प्रसिद्ध लेखक लेव तालस्तोय द्वारा रचित उपन्यास है। यह पहली बार १८६९ में प्रकाशित हुआ था। यह एक विशाल रचना है और विश्व साहित्य की महानतम रचनाओं में इसकी गणना होती …
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of …
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, …