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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although A Confession led to his ex-communication ...Show more
A Confession (PB) by Leo Tolstoy; Aylmer Maude (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
Leo Tolstoy's A Confession
A Confession (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Tolstoy Leo
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
The legendary author's passionate and iconoclastic writings - on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. However, despite his success with works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, ...Show more
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
In "Confession" Tolstoy poses the question: Is there any meaning in my life that will not be destroyed by my death? In 1879 the fifty-year-old author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life. Either of these magnificant novels would have assured Tol ...Show more
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Ben H. Winters)
Category: Fiction | Series: Quirk Classics
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina—an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. Leo ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In h ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Gemma Barder (Adapted by); Helen Panayi (Illustrator); Leo Tolstoy
Category: Children's
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oprah's Classics Book Club Selections
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonskytranslation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, "Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing o ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Fiction
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing oficer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, t ...Show more