Leo Tolstoj

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

Krig og fred er en historisk roman av Leo Tolstoj, utgitt i 1869. Den blir vanligvis betraktet som det ene av Tolstojs to mesterverker. Handlingen utspiller fra 1805 til 1820 i russisk adelsmiljø under Napoleonskrigene og skildrer fem russiske adelsfamilier samt et stort antall bipersoner. Boken skildrer …

Krig og fred er en historisk roman av Leo Tolstoj, utgitt i 1869. Den blir vanligvis betraktet som det ene av Tolstojs to mesterverker. Handlingen utspiller fra 1805 til 1820 i russisk adelsmiljø under Napoleonskrigene og skildrer fem russiske adelsfamilier samt et stort antall bipersoner. Boken skildrer …

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 …

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.

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 …