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In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. The three Sebastopol Sketches - 'December', 'May' and 'August' - re-create what happened during different phases of the siege and its effect on the ordinary men around him.

Leo Tolstoy: The Novellas and Short Stories includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 12 greatest novellas in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

Leo Tolstoy: The Novellas includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 10 greatest novellas in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

A Confession is a beautiful and thorough dive into that timeless question, “What is the meaning of life?”. After fifty-one years of life and during the height of his fame, Tolstoy began to question everything. Through a creative and insightful analogy, Tolstoy depicts the crisis of reality...

Arguably the greatest literary masterpiece, War and Peace is an amazing blend of philosophy, history, spirituality, and love told through two families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys. The Rostovs personify the Russian spirit. Count Rostov, a generous, kind spendthrift, can deny his family nothing. His countess is a warm, loving, overindulged woman. These characteristics are reflected in their children, while the austere Bolkonskys are duty-bound.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, Anna Karenina is often published in more than 800 pages.

It happened in the seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.

Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 5 greatest short stories in one audiobook.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more, alongside selected poetry from Christina Rossetti; Elizabeth Browning; and Emily Dickinson. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Keeble, and many more, this is your new go-to collection to catch up on those classics you've always wanted to hear.

Not all vampires walk the land alone — sometimes they bring their relatives. So discovers a lonely traveler when he carelessly visits a haunted village.

From sweeping tales of war and philosophy to darkly comic journeys through bureaucracy and haunting visions of dystopia, this collection gathers some of the most profound and provocative works ever written. Each novel offers a unique window into the complexities of the human condition, set against the backdrop of Russia's rich and turbulent history.

The Essential Classics: Volume 1 brings together some of the most astute, gripping and tragic works written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, beautifully read by Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, and Olivia Dowd. Spanning English, Russian and German literature, in this collection you will find the terrifying trials of iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, Dickens’s cutting social commentary in Bleak House, as well as classic coming-of-age narratives with The Magic Mountain and Tolstoy’s realist masterpiece in Anna Karenina.

The Definitive War Novels Collection is a collection of 8 works that all centre around the destruction of war, and span out to encompass themes from family to love and beyond. Read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators, included here are novels and epics from George Orwell; Ernest Hemingway; Leo Tolstoy; Homer; Rebecca West; and many more.

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.

This collection brings together stories and reflections in which Leo Tolstoy turns inward. Stripped of grandeur, these works offer something more intimate: the inner noise of conscience, the weight of faith, the silence before death. A servant's silence, a horse's memory, a dying man's doubt—these are not performances. They are questions, waiting quietly for whoever dares to ask the same. Tolstoy isn't offering answers. He's writing toward something deeper. And the questions haven't aged a day.

Tolstoy’un ölümsüz eseri “İnsan Neyle Yaşar”, yüzyıllar sonra hâlâ insan yüreğine dokunan basit bir soruyu peşine takıyor: Bizi hayatta tutan gerçek güç nedir? Bir köy kunduracısının yol kenarında donmak üzere bulduğu esrarengiz yabancıyla başlayan bu kısa klasik, merhametin ve sevginin görünmez ağına düşen sıradan insanların öyküsünü anlatıyor. Tolstoy, melekler ve kırbacın gölgesinde geçen bu masalsı anlatıda, ekmeğin tadından adaletin yüküne, on bin talant borcundan bozkır rüzgârına uzanan geniş bir insanlık panoraması kuruyor.

Aşkın ateşiyle yanıp toplumun buz kesen duvarlarına çarpan Anna Karenina… Tolstoy’un ölümsüz romanı şimdi daha kısa, fakat aynı yüreklilikle karşınızda. Bu yeniden kurgulanmış edisyonda sayfalar hızla akıyor; Anna ile Vronski’nin sarsıcı tutkusu, Levin ile Kitty’nin toprağa kök salan umutları ve Karenin’in geç kalmış pişmanlıkları ilk günkü canlılığıyla içimize işliyor. Gereksiz ayrıntılar ayıklandı, ama Rusya’nın kar kokulu sokakları, balo salonlarının ışıltısı ve tren raylarının uğultusu yerli yerinde kaldı.

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The collection includes the best works of famous Russian writers:. Fyodor Dostoevsky. NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND. THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN. THE BEGGAR BOY AT CHRIST'S CHRISTMAS TREE. Leo Tolstoy. THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH. A LETTER TO A HINDU. A CONFESSION. GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS. A RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS PARTY. Anton Chekhov. THE LADY WITH THE DOG. A SLANDER. THE HORSE-STEALERS. THE PETCHENYEG. A DEAD BODY. A HAPPY ENDING. THE LOOKING-GLASS. OLD AGE. DARKNESS. THE BEGGAR. IN TROUBLE. FROST. MINDS IN FERMENT. GONE ASTRAY. AN AVENGER. THE JEUNE PREMIER. A DEFENCELESS CREATURE.