Leo Tolstoj

"What Men Live By" is a short story written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1885. It is one of the short stories included in his collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales, published in 1885. The compilation also included the written pieces "The Three Questions", "The Coffee-House of Surat", and "How Much Land Does …

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession,' 'Religion and Morality,' 'What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence …

Anna Karenina er en roman av den russiske forfatteren Leo Tolstoj, først publisert i tidsskriftet Russkiy Vestnik i årene 1873–1877, og deretter i bokform i 1878. Romanen har to parallelle historier: overklassefruen Annas forelskelse i offiseren Vronskij fører til utroskap og oppløsning av ekteskap og familie, mens …

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

Anna Karenina er en roman av den russiske forfatteren Leo Tolstoj, først publisert i tidsskriftet Russkiy Vestnik i årene 1873–1877, og deretter i bokform i 1878. Romanen har to parallelle historier: overklassefruen Annas forelskelse i offiseren Vronskij fører til utroskap og oppløsning av ekteskap og familie, mens …

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.

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 …