Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a da...

Tolstoy's great novel, one of his last works of fiction, tells the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a da...

Though famous for the massive War and Peace, Tolstoy was equally adept at shorter forms as is shown by this novella. Ivan Ilyich Golovin is a high court judge in St Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is...

In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He tu...

The soul-searching book that inspired Gandhi to embrace the concept of passive resistance, Tolstoy's 1894 polemic outlines a radical, well-reasoned revision of traditional Christian thinking. The revered novelist and political thinker...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experi...

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of fully realized...

Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author who is regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time and best-known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In addition to his novels, novellas and numerous short st...

A Confession or My 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 in his early fifties. The book is a...

As a result of his controversial works criticizing the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church, Tolstoy was excommunicated in 1901. Tolstoy dismissed the event lightly as he continued his search for a practical religion. &q...

In A Confession, Leo Tolstoy confronts the profound existential questions that haunted him. Translated by Aylmer Maude, this autobiographical work offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of literature's giants. Tolstoy candidl...

A Letter to a Hindu, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary forma...

Leo Tolstoy wrote a short novella titled "A Prisoner in the Caucasus," which was released in 1870. In the army, there is an officer by the name of Zhilin. He gets a letter from home one day. His mother is the one who call...

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire--died November 7 November 20], 1910, As...

Read Tolstoy's original Anna Karenina without the need for a dictionary with this edition. Bringing you seventeen chapters from various parts of Anna Karenina, this edition's Russian and English word-by-word translation is displayed o...

Anna Karenina was the next major novel of Tolstoy after his War and Peace. "In order for a work to be good, one must love its main basic idea. In Anna Karenina I love the family idea while in War and Peace I loved the national id...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 - 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. H...

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS Bethink Yourselves: Concerning The Russo-Japanese War Translated By Aylmer Maude This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a c...

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire--died November 7 November 20], 1910, As...

Boyhood (1854) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Boyhood is the second in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka’s journey fro...

In this trilogy of autobiographical novels Leo Tolstoy's first published works are gathered together. An instant success, one which would launch Tolstoy's distinguished career, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth", was first publ...

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a p...

The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere fa...

Each of the 6 powerful tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, shrewd observations, and vivid narration that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. In addition to the title story, this compilation includes 'Three Deaths,' 'T...

Father Sergius" is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The y...

The brilliant shorter novels of Tolstoy, including The Death of Ivan Ilych and Family Happiness, collected and reissued with a beautiful updated design. Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western w...

Leo Tolstoy wrote the novella Hadji Murad between 1896 and 1904, and it was released posthumously in 1912. (though not in full until 1917). Hadji Murat, the rebel leader of the Avar people, is the main character. He forms an uncomfort...

When Hadji Murat, a revered and feared Avar commander in the struggle of Dagestan and Chechnya against incorporation into the Russian empire, falls out with his commander, Imam Shamil, the only way to save his family’s life is t...

This 1886 novel by Leo Tolstoy tells the intriguing tale of a rapacious farmer named Pakhom. Despite being in good health and having a happy family, Pakhom is unhappy when he hears about his cousins' enormous success. He makes the dec...

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and civilization.