Leo Tolstoi

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 …

Sota ja rauha on venäläisen Leo Tolstoin suurteos, jota hän kirjoitti vuosina 1865–1869. Maailmankirjallisuuden merkittävimpiin kuuluva teos on 1500-sivuinen historiallinen aikakirja vuoden 1812 sodasta Napoleonia vastaan. Se on myös läpileikkaus koko Venäjän yhteiskunnasta. Sodan ja rauhan tuorein suomennos on …

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

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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, …

Anna Karenina on venäläisen kirjailijan Leo Tolstoin romaani, joka julkaistiin osissa vuosina 1875–1877. Kirja kertoo kahdesta romanssista: ensinnäkin Anna Kareninan ja kreivi Vronskin traagisen lemmentarinan ja toiseksi Konstantin Levinin ja Kitty Štšerbatskin onnellisemman tarinan. Teemana voidaan nähdä juuri ne …