Lev Tolstoy

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger.

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 …