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Book Synopsis The Tragedy of Count Leo Tolstoy by : Valentin Bulgakov
Download or read book The Tragedy of Count Leo Tolstoy written by Valentin Bulgakov and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Power of Darkness by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Power of Darkness written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Darkness (1886) is a play by Leo Tolstoy. Forbidden for decades in Tolstoy’s native Russia, the five-act play was first staged in Paris, where it earned praise from some of France’s leading critics. Noted for its brutal depiction of violence and desperation, the play is concerned with the universal religious and philosophical themes that inspired such masterpieces as War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Peasant life is often portrayed in art as peaceful and romantic, in touch with the rhythms of the natural world and coursing with spirituality. In The Power of Darkness, Tolstoy refuses such empty symbolism, choosing instead to tell a story of greed, murder, and betrayal that has everything to do with the political reality faced by its impoverished characters. Fearful of what will happen to their farm when her aging husband Peter dies, Anisya seduces her farmhand Nikita, whose lack of education and opportunity—as well as a moral emptiness—make him a willing accomplice. Betraying Marinka, a young orphan girl he manipulates for pleasure, Nikita joins Anisya in dispossessing her stubborn husband. Tragic and disturbing, The Power of Darkness is a story of man at war with nature, and therefore at war with himself. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Leo Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness is a classic work of Russian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Book Synopsis The Long Exile and Other Stories by : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Download or read book The Long Exile and Other Stories written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher, as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer.
Book Synopsis The Death of Ivan Ilyich by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful man must face the terror of his own mortality in this masterful nineteenth-century Russian novella by the author of War and Peace. In his later years, Leo Tolstoy began to contemplate the inescapable realities of mortality—its terrifying mystery, its many indignities, and the way it forces one to look back on the legacy and regrets of one’s life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, widely considered the masterpiece of Tolstoy’s late career, is both a deeply insightful meditation on the final months of a man’s life, and an unsparing critique of conventional middle-class life in nineteenth-century Russia. Ivan Ilyich, a prosperous high-court judge, spends his days pursuing social advancement among his peers and avoiding his loveless marriage. But when a seemingly innocuous injury signals the beginning of a terminal illness, Ilyich begins to see the true worth of his life with tragic clarity.
Book Synopsis Redemption and Two Other Plays by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book Redemption and Two Other Plays written by Leo Tolstoy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy's Redemption is the story of physical degeneration and spiritual regeneration of the main character, Fdya. The Power of Darkness is a tragedy about a group of peasants living in abject misery. Fruits of Culture also deals with the issues faced by...
Book Synopsis War and Peace (Annotated) by : Jason Lee
Download or read book War and Peace (Annotated) written by Jason Lee and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'.Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 9.5.
Download or read book Hadji Murad written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing work tells the story of Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who builds an uneasy alliance with the Russians he has been fighting for a long time for personal vendetta. It presents an intense portrait of the period and the rivals. The narrative is engaging from the beginning, and Tolstoy displays an outstanding skill in creating completely captivating atmospheres and surroundings.
Book Synopsis The Complete Plays of Leo Tolstoy by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Complete Plays of Leo Tolstoy written by Leo Tolstoy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Tolstoy's greatest plays includes: Introduction_x000D_ Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography_x000D_ "Tolstoy the Artist" and "Tolstoy the Preacher" by Ivan Panin_x000D_ "Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor" by Isabel Hapgood_x000D_ Plays_x000D_ The Power of Darkness _x000D_ The First Distiller_x000D_ Fruits of Culture_x000D_ The Live Corpse_x000D_ The Cause of it All_x000D_ The Light Shines in Darkness_x000D_ Reminiscences_x000D_ Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Graf Ilia LvovichTolstoi_x000D_ My Visit to Tolstoy by Joseph Krauskopf_x000D_ "My First Interview with Tolstoy" and "At one of the Tolstoy Receptions" by Lilian Bell_x000D_ Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays._x000D_
Book Synopsis Leo Tolstoy's 5 Greatest Novellas Annotated by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book Leo Tolstoy's 5 Greatest Novellas Annotated written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reading War & Peace, Fyodor Dostoevsky put the book down and said, "The fool hath said in heart there is no God." Yet, Tolstoy's shorter novels (i.e., novellas) are filled with all the war, adventure, comedy, religion, tragedy, and Russian tradition that inhabit the longer novels of the Russian bear of literature. Andrew Barger, editor of the best selling anthology, "Leo Tolstoy's 20 Greatest Short Stories Annotated," has gathered the very best of Tolstoy's novellas into one remarkable collection that includes hundreds of annotations of difficult Russian terms and sheds light on historic figures mentioned in the stories. But there is much more to this anthology. Andrew has included a short biography on Tolstoy and a chronology of his life and publications. Read these fascinating novellas today: 1) The Invaders - A Russian team moves against Shamyl and his Islamic army in the Caucasus, which is based on Tolstoy's military experiences in the 1850s. 2) The Death of Ivan Ilyich - When a man who has done good his entire life is stricken with an illness, it makes him question everything. 3) Two Hussars - When a hell-raiser takes lodging in a small Russian city, debauchery is inevitable but will it be matched years later by his son? 4) Father Sergius - The taboo subject of a priest being subjected to physical temptation is explored in one of Tolstoy's most scandalous stories. 5) Master & Man - By the end of this snowstorm adventure, you will be asking yourself, Who is the master and who is the servant? What do some of the world's greatest literary minds have to say about the works of Tolstoy: A second Shakespeare. Gustave Flaubert No English novelist is as great as Tolstoy. E.M. Forster The greatest Russian writer of prose fiction. Vladimir Nabokov The greatest of all novelists. Virginia Woolf Read the shorter novels of Leo Tolstoy today: http://www.AndrewBarger.com
Download or read book The Live Corpse written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] THE LIVE CORPSE ACT I Scene 1 Protásov's[1] flat in Moscow. The scene represents a small dining-room. Anna Pávlovna, a stout grey-haired lady, tightly laced, is sitting alone at the tea-table on which is a samovár. Enter nurse, carrying a teapot.[...]".
Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Tolstoy’s classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.
Book Synopsis War and Peace - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy by : Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Download or read book War and Peace - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy written by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 1783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy; War and Peace - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Leo Wiener
Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy; War and Peace - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Leo Wiener and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Tolstoy (Classic Reprint) by : Vladimir Tchertkoff
Download or read book The Last Days of Tolstoy (Classic Reprint) written by Vladimir Tchertkoff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Days of Tolstoy Some Of us in Great Britain feel that the time has come when it is highly desirable that we should hear the story of the tragedy which beset the last years of Leo Tolstoy's life, from one who was in its scene. We can understand and respect your reticence up to this point. But now so many rumours, derogatory to Tolstoy, and therefore likely to diminish the weight of his teaching, are spreading over the world, and seem to be the subject Of a very active propaganda even in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy, Volume 24 by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy, Volume 24 written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated & Unabridged & Uncensored Edition. Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in installments between 1875 and 1877 and considered one of the pinnacles of world literature. The narrative centres on the adulterous affair between Anna, wife of Aleksey Karenin, and Count Vronsky, a young bachelor. Karenin's discovery of the liaison arouses only his concern for his own public image. Anna promises discretion for the sake of her husband and young son but eventually becomes pregnant by Vronsky. After the child is born, Anna and the child accompany Vronsky first to Italy and then to his Russian estate. She begins making furtive trips to see her older child and grows increasingly bitter toward Vronsky, eventually regarding him as unfaithful. In desperation, she goes to the train station, purchases a ticket, and then impulsively throws herself in front of the incoming train. A parallel love story, involving the difficult courtship and fulfilling marriage of Kitty and Levin, provides a rich counterpoint to the tragedy and is thought to reflect Tolstoy's own marital experience. There is an inevitability about the tragic fate that hangs over the adulterous love of Anna and Vronsky. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay" is the epigraph of the novel and the leitmotif of the story. Anna pays not so much because she transgresses the moral code but because she refuses to observe the proprieties customarily exacted in such liaisons by the hypocritical high society to which she belongs. What is it about Anna Karenina that gives it special status among the great novels? How is it that a sensational romantic tragedy of tsarist high society, interspersed with digressions into 19th-century Russian agricultural policy, written in a seemingly plain, straightforward style across 900 pages, still provokes both excitement and respect from readers as diverse as JM Coetzee, Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey, and lures Tom Stoppard to write the script for the latest of a dozen film adaptations? The book floats in some charmed section of the lake of literary opinion where the ripples from modernism and the ripples from Hollywood overlap without merging. It is more admired than learned from. Anna Karenina couldn't be less like a conventional modern novel. Instead of a barrage of metaphors describing things in terms of other things that they resemble, Lev Tolstoy seeks the precise word for the thing itself. Instead of the solipsistic modern mode of events being experienced from the point of view of a single character, Tolstoy slips in and out of the consciousness of dozens of characters, major and minor. At one point he tells us what a character's dog is thinking. Tolstoy doesn't believe in "show, don't tell". He likes to show and tell. The teller, the narrator of the book, is a formless, omniscient voice with no elaborate Rothian construct to justify his role. No first-person or free-indirect speech here. Even while we're in a character's head, it's the narrator who recounts the character's experiences through liberal use of such unfashionable phrases as "she thought", "he felt" and "it seemed to him that". Tolstoy creates a space for the narrator's independence - the narrator is close enough to the characters to rely on them for his existence, but free enough to pass unchallenged judgment on their actions, and to tell us things about them that they don't know about themselves. The most powerful passages are those where Tolstoy slows time down to note each thought, gesture and feeling of Anna and her lover Vronsky, with a third entity present - the narrator - not only lodged deep in the two psyches, but standing back to tell us the ways in which one is misunderstanding the other.
Book Synopsis The Death of Ivan Ilych by : graf Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilych written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1960 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight, Leo Tolstoy realistically sweeps aside the sham of surface appearances to lay bare man's intimates gestures, acts, and thoughts.