Anywhere: Tolstoy, Leo 1828-1910 (Keywords)

León Tolstoi, o León Tolstoi, es un escritor famoso sobre todo por sus novelas y cuentos que describen la vida del pueblo ruso durante la época de los zares. Guerra y paz (1869), que Tolstoi tardó diez años en escribir y que es una de sus mayores novelas, pinta un retrato histórico y realista de ...

"After The Dance" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. The main character Ivan sets out to prove that it is all by chance. Yet in the end, he seems to prove that it is by environment.

"Albert" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. It was originally published in 1858. The lead character, Albert, is a homeless, yet brilliant, violinist. The kind Delesov wanted to save the young violinist, but after taking him home, discovers that Albert's drinking and temper threaten to destroy h...

"Alyosha the Pot" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy and a masterpiece of rare perfection. Alyosha, a young child who lives in a village and obtained the nickname "the Pot" from an incident where he broke a pot in his youth, is sent to live with a merchant's family as a servant. He falls in love...

As gossip and scandal dominate her friends' lives on New York's Upper East Side, Anna sails above it all. She has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend and she always makes her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Until the night she meets notorious playboy...

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society.

"The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her"--Container.

But a chance meeting at a train station in Moscow sets her passionate heart alight, and she is defenceless in the face of Count Vronsky’s adoration. Having defied the rules of nineteenth-century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price. Human nature, with all its failings, is the fabr...

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written, Tolstoy himself saw it as his first true novel. The novel was not well received by cr...

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude