Russie, 1880. Anna Karenine, est une jeune femme de la haute societe de Saint-Petersbourg. Elle est mariee a Alexis Karenine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration imperiale, un personnage austere et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garcon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski, venu a la rencontre de sa mere. Elle tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Ce n'est tout d'abord qu'un eclair, et la joie de retrouver son mari et son fils lui font croire que ce sera un vertige sans lendemain....

Russie, 1880. Anna Karenine, est une jeune femme de la haute societe de Saint-Petersbourg. Elle est mariee a Alexis Karenine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration imperiale, un personnage austere et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garcon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski, venu a la rencontre de sa mere. Elle tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Ce n'est tout d'abord qu'un eclair, et la joie de retrouver son mari et son fils lui font croire que ce sera un vertige sans lendemain....

Ivan the Fool By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two book stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent...

A definitive translation of Tolstoy's early work. Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that...