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The Kingdom of God and Peace Essays
The Kingdom of God and Peace Essays is one of Tolstoy’s most acclaimed works, published at a time when the great writer’s precepts were unacceptable to the Church, the State, the military and even the society to which he belonged. These essays are, in essence, messages of peace, denouncing war, and protesting against the curtailing of free speech, press and religion at a time when liberty was ignored by world leaders. A great work of literature in their own right, they reveal Tolstoy’s consummate skill as an artist, as well as his moral stature, courage and faith. The world has changed greatly since the first publication of these essays, but their meaning continues to be relevant in a world that is still caught in the midst of strife and conflict.
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5 Russian Masters
A compilation of classic short stories by 5 great Russian writers: Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. Though not necessarily representative of the authors? complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to showcase their versatility and skill as storytellers. The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and settings, allowing the reader to get a glimpse of another world gone by. Even though these stories seem timeless, the characters in them show the same foibles, fears and hopes as people in the brave new world of the 21st century.
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Great Works Of Leo Tolstoy
As an author,Leo Tolstoy successfully portrayed a row of striking elements of the society he lived in through some of his most popular works like 'War and Peace' and "anna Kareinna'.Details of the most minute nature make the novels an amazing pieces of art. War and Peace appears on the list of some of the greatest novels in English fiction.The novel presents a study of 19th century Russian society.Tolstoy rendered a realistic display of the social conditions of the time in that novel, which deals with the histories of five aristocratic societies.The Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14) forms the structure on which the novel rests. Anna Kareinna, another work of Tolstoy revolving around the similar themes of marriage and social life, is yet another popular piece of literary art. All the works of Tolstoy depict the philosophy of life he formed after being a witness to the conventions of the society he lived through
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Anna karenina
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul.
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The Death of Ivan Iiyich and Master and Man
A new translation, with an introduction and notes, by Ann Pasternak Slater. This new edition brings together the very best of Tolstoy's great short stories. The death of Ivan Ilyich and equally brilliant master and Man. Both describe the subjective experience of death meticulously and uncompromisingly. In the snowstorm-inevitable death facing a rich landowner and his peasant employee, each tracing in extremity his own spiritual path. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of morality, redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. Ann Pasternak Slater, fellow and tutor in English at St. anne's college, oxford, has written and lectured on her uncle Boris Pasternak's translations od Shakespeare, and is the translator of his brother Alexander Pasternak's memoris. A vanished Present. Her grandmother loenoid pasternak was tolstoy's friend and one of his first illustrators, working with him on war and peace,resurrection and the late short story"what men live by". Includes a modern library reading group guide Joinn our modern library newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to: