Browse by category
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompro ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Shar ...Show more
The Lion and the Puppy and Other Stories for Children by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Children's
This is a beautifully-illustrated collection of twenty-five stories for children. Each is based on Russian folklore with a definite moral or lesson to be learned, similar in scope to Aesop's fables. All the stories reflect Tolstoy's humor and respect for nature. This collection is warm, earthy, and fill ...Show more
The Power of Darkness - A Drama in Five Acts by Leo Tolstoy; Louise Maude (Translator); Aylmer Maude (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the di ...Show more
The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This vintage book contains a fascinating and insightful analysis of socio-economic conditions written more than a hundred years ago. In it, Tolstoy explores the flaws of the division of labour, progress, greed, economic theories, wage slavery, and more in astonishing detail. This volume is highly recomm ...Show more
Tolstoy in Search of Truth and Meaning - Wisdom from His Letters, Novels, Essays, and Conversations by Leo Tolstoy; Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This collection of inspirational thoughts represents Tolstoy's lifelong quest to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Chronicled as a biographical arrangement of his philosophical views, featuring quotations from his earliest diaries, stories, religious writings, political tracts, conversations, ...Show more
WAR AND PEACE audio by TOLSTOY LEO
Category: Audio Books | Series: BBC Radio Collection: Fiction and Drama S.
A full cast dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel.
War And Peace by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natas ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more