On the Significance of Science and Art By Leo Tolstoy, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Redemption and the Power of Darkness By Leo Tolstoy, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Boyhood By Leo Tolstoy, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in...

Father Sergio is a small work written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890. It was first published in 1898. The story begins with the Children and Youth idealized Prince Stepan Kasatsky. Apparently, the young Kasatsky fated esta a Being a Great Man. Discover Prince on the eve of her wedding The extramarital affair of his wife, Countess Maria Korotkova with Czar Nicholas I. This Dana greatly pride, and took refuge in the Russian Orthodox Church to become a monk. In these years, Kasatsky will live in humility and, above all, in doubt. Despite becoming a hermit by orders of the high clergy, people still...

Brings together Tolstoy's 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy's letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote after witnessing the slaughtering of livestock, and a portfolio of relevant photographs.

The Awakening (Resurrection) (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption, achieved through loving forgiveness and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of...

Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As...

The perspective of the writer Leo Tolstoy on the reality of death. Death of Ivan Ilyich. Discussions on a major event such as death happen only in the larger world of great experiences and imagination. But when death comes unexpectedly, no philosophy comes to provide relief to him. Doubts about death end only with death itself, and only when life is lived to the full, will a meaningful insight develop, so teaches Tolstoy.