《전쟁과 평화》는 레프 톨스토이의 장편소설이다. 데카브리스트를 둘러싼 중편소설 모체가 되어 구상된 것으로, 1865~1866년에 걸쳐 첫머리 2장만이 <Ру́сский ве́стник>에 게재되었다. 나머지 부분은 1869년 단행본으로 일괄해서 …
《전쟁과 평화》는 레프 톨스토이의 장편소설이다. 데카브리스트를 둘러싼 중편소설 모체가 되어 구상된 것으로, 1865~1866년에 걸쳐 첫머리 2장만이 <Ру́сский ве́стник>에 게재되었다. 나머지 부분은 1869년 단행본으로 일괄해서 …
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, …