Leo Tolstoi

This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.

"The Devil" is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909, but published only posthumously in 1911. Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, written around the same time, "The Devil" deals with the consequences of sexual emotion.

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 …

What is Art? is a book by Leo Tolstoy. It was completed in Russian in 1897 but first published in English due to difficulties with the Russian censors. Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art as reason for writing …