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WAR AND PEACE
War and Peace
Название: WAR AND PEACE
Автор: 
Издательство: Penguin Group
Год:  2010
Страниц:  1408
Формат: PDF
Размер: 49.28 mb
Жанр: Penguin Group
Considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805 in the crowded and gossip-filled rooms of a St Petersburg party and follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, culminating in the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and Napoleon's defeat. Tolstoy's vast novel takes in both the epic sweep of national events and the private experience of individuals, from the keen young soldier to Napoleon himself, and at the heart of it all the complicated triangle of affection that binds his central characters.
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THE KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Название: THE KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  2010
Страниц:  512
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
'To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.' Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his sixty-year career as a writer a significant body of works of shorter ficiton. These fictions, like his novels, tend toward a uniqueness in form, even as they explore a set of themes common in the longer works. The four novellas selected here stand closest to the novels, and represent Tolstoy at his creative best, exploring in a specific and focused way his characteristic themes: life understood as a journey of the discovery of identity and vocation, the meaning of one's life in the face of death, and the redemptive role of suffering and compassion. Family Happiness (1859) traces the psychology of failed married love yet is written against the tradition of the novel of romance, marriage and adultery. The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) recounts a husband's addictions, jealousy, sinister guilt and subsequent isolation, while The Cossacks (1863) focuses on the experiences of a young Russian on in the Caucusus whose quest for romantic love becomes one for the love of 'the whole of God's world'. Finally, the superbly crafted Hadji Murad (1905) juxtaposes the military and civilian worlds, and relates a tale of the human violation of the natural through a series of parallel episodes. Written over a period of almost fifty years, these works display Tolstoy's changing views on art and sexuality, women and marriage, nationalism and ethnicity, war and empire. All four novellas develop, each in its own unique way, the central Tolystoyan theme of love. This edition, which updates a classic Top page translation, has explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.
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WAR AND PEACE
War and Peace
Название: WAR AND PEACE
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  2010
Страниц:  1440
Формат: PDF
Размер: 50.40 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.'Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirees alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them. In this revised and updated version of the definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy's genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader.
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ANNA KARENINA
Anna Karenina
Название: ANNA KARENINA
Автор: 
Издательство: CRW Publishing
Год:  2010
Страниц:  1125
Формат: PDF
Размер: 39.38 mb
Жанр: CRW Publishing
This title presents the sweeping love story of two people who defy the conventions of their age to follow the dictates of their hearts. Trapped in a stifling marriage, Anna Karenina is swept off her feet by the dashing Count Vronsky. When the truth about their passionate liaison comes out, Anna's husband is more concerned with keeping up appearances than anything else, but at last he seeks a reluctant divorce. Rejected by society, the two lovers flee to Italy, where Anna finds herself isolated from all except the man she loves, and who loves her. But can they live by love alone? In this novel of astonishing scope and grandeur, Leo Tolstoy, the great master of Russian literature, charts the course of the human heart.
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THE DEVIL AND OTHER STORIES
The Devil and Other Stories
Название: THE DEVIL AND OTHER STORIES
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  2009
Страниц:  332
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11.62 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
«This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina». Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy', as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry.»
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LAST STEPS: THE LATE WRITINGS OF LEO TOLSTOY
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Название: LAST STEPS: THE LATE WRITINGS OF LEO TOLSTOY
Автор: 
Издательство: Penguin Group
Год:  2009
Страниц:  256
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8.96 mb
Жанр: Penguin Group
«It's 1910. «Anna Karenina» and «War and Peace» have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's autobiographical writing, diaries, and letters related to the last year of Tolstoy's life published to coincide with the 2009 film of Parini's novel «The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year».»
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RESURRECTION
Resurrection
Название: RESURRECTION
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  2009
Страниц:  528
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy's major novels, tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting Tolstoy's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
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PENGUIN READERS 6: ANNA KARENINA
Penguin Readers 6: Anna Karenina
Название: PENGUIN READERS 6: ANNA KARENINA
Автор: 
Издательство: Pearson
Год:  2008
Страниц:  120
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.20 mb
Жанр: Pearson
Anna Karenina, one of world literature's greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls in love with a handsome young soldier, life suddenly seems wonderful. But real happiness is not so easily found ...
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ANNA KARENINA
Anna Karenina
Название: ANNA KARENINA
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  2008
Страниц:  880
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 30.80 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
«In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written. In writing «Anna Karenina» he moved away from the vast historical sweep of «War and Peace» to tell, with extraordinary understanding, the story of an aristocratic woman who brings ruin on herself. Anna's tragedy is interwoven with not only the courtship and marriage of Kitty and Levin but also the lives of many other characters. Rich in incident, powerful in characterization, the novel also expresses Tolstoy's own moral vision. `The correct way of putting the question is the artist's duty', Chekhov once insisted, and Anna Karenina was the work he chose to make his point. It solves no problem, but it is deeply satisfying because all the questions are put correctly.»
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ANNA KARENINA
Anna Karenina
Название: ANNA KARENINA
Автор: 
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год:  2008
Страниц:  752
Формат: PDF
Размер: 26.32 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery marks a turning point in the author's career. His compelling, emotional saga recounts the effects of nonconformist behavior — a society woman's adulterous affair and a landowner's unconventional quest for a meaningful existence — against a backdrop of late 19th-century Russia.
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ANNA KARENINA READER
Anna Karenina Reader
Название: ANNA KARENINA READER
Автор: 
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Год:  2006
Страниц:  120
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.20 mb
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
The timeless story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing Count Vronsky Recommended for older readers.
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WAR AND PEACE
War and Peace
Название: WAR AND PEACE
Автор: 
Издательство: Random House, Inc.
Год:  2004
Страниц:  1424
Формат: PDF
Размер: 49.84 mb
Жанр: Random House, Inc.
The monumental novel considered one of the greatest ever written is an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
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THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND MASTER AND MAN
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
Название: THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND MASTER AND MAN
Автор: 
Издательство: Random House, Inc.
Год:  2004
Страниц:  160
Формат: PDF
Размер: 5.60 mb
Жанр: Российская литература
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 suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
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THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Название: THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES
Автор: 
Издательство: Wordsworth
Год:  2004
Страниц:  288
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10.08 mb
Жанр: Wordsworth
«Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina», commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In 'The Kreutzer Sonata' he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in 'The Devil' a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.»
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HADJI MURAD
Hadji Murad
Название: HADJI MURAD
Автор: 
Издательство: Random House, Inc.
Год:  2003
Страниц:  128
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.48 mb
Жанр: Random House, Inc.
In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil's prison, Hadji Murad was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed. Tolstoy, witness to many of the events leading to Hadji Murad's death, set down this story with painstaking accuracy to preserve for future generations the horror, nobility, and destruction inherent in war.
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THE KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Название: THE KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER STORIES
Автор: 
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:  1998
Страниц:  512
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society. In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata.