Leo Tolstoy
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"¿Cuánta tierra necesita un hombre?" es un relato corto escrito por el famoso autor ruso León Tolstói, publicado por primera vez en 1886. Esta obra es considerada una de las obras maestras de la literatura rusa y es conocida por su profundidad filosófica y su crítica social.
El relato narra la historia de Pajom, un campesino ambicioso que sueña con poseer más tierras. La trama se centra en su búsqueda de tierras y en su encuentro con los...
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An alternative version – the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished – of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon – it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece – a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion...
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The greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in Brief—Leo Tolstoy's riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative. Virtually unknown to English readers until now, Dustin Condren's groundbreaking translation from the Russian opens a precious new world of Tolstoy's masterful literary talent to fans of War and Peace and Anna Karenina....
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Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life.
Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after
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During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his friends: a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide-ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own spiritual meditations. It was banned under the Communists, and only one volume, A Calendar of Wisdom, drawn largely from the writings of other...
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Leo Tolstoy meets robots in this “creepy, thrilling, and highly enjoyable” sci-fi mashup of the classic Russian novel Anna Karenina (Library Journal).
“ . . . lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy ‘awesomer.’”—The Onion AV Club
It’s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy’s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported...
“ . . . lives up to its promise to make Tolstoy ‘awesomer.’”—The Onion AV Club
It’s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy’s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported...
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One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex—a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class....
8) Ana Karenina
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Ana Karenina es una novela del autor ruso León Tolstói, publicada por primera vez en forma de libro en 1878. Muchos escritores la consideran una de las obras literarias más grandes jamás escritas, y el mismo Tolstói la llamó su primera novela verdadera. Inicialmente se publicó en entregas en serie desde 1875 hasta 1877, y todas menos la última parte aparecieron en el periódico El Mensajero Ruso.3 Una novela compleja en ocho partes, con...
9) A Confession
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A Confession is a beautiful and thorough dive into that timeless question, "What is the meaning of life?". After fifty-one years of life and during the height of his fame, Tolstoy began to question everything. Through a creative and insightful analogy, Tolstoy depicts the crisis of reality that emerges when one questions the existence of God. An existence that he had been taught since childhood and had followed along with his whole life. He uses deduction...
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A collection of short stories from one of the most famous writers of very long novels Leo Tolstoy, including: Ilyas, Little Girls Wiser Than Men, The Coffee-House of Surat. 'For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.' Read in English, unabridged.
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This group of 6 short stories has been hand selected by the publisher to provide a sampling of Tolstoy's thoughts about what it means to live out the Christian life. Tolstoy's short stories and novellas are considered to be some of the greatest penned in the 20th century. Many of these stories have strong Christian themes, revealing Tolstoy's own sincere faith along with important lessons and ideals. These stories often focus on self-sacrifice, the...
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León Tolstoi, o León Tolstoi, es un escritor famoso sobre todo por sus novelas y cuentos que describen la vida del pueblo ruso durante la época de los zares. Guerra y paz (1869), que Tolstoi tardó diez años en escribir y que es una de sus mayores novelas, pinta un retrato histórico y realista de todas las clases sociales en el momento de la invasión de Rusia por las tropas de Napoleón en 1812, en un vasto fresco de las complejidades de la...
13) The Cossacks
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Dissatisfied with his life of frivolity among the aristocracy of Moscow, young Dmitri Andreyevitch Oleynin sets out for the Caucasus region. Here, among the natural beauty of his surroundings and the honest and industrious peasant people, Oleynin hopes to obtain a more meaningful existence.
14) Ilyas
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A story of a successful farmer Ilyas who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to loose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness however only after loosing all his possessions and achieving peace for himself and his wife. Read in English, unabridged.
15) Father Sergius
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Leo Tolstoy brings to light the struggle of finding true faith in this short story about a young man who desperately chases worldly accolades and social status before finding contentment in the last place he would have thought to look. After learning of the shame that he receives as catastrophic news, the young protagonist turns to the monastery to prove his moral superiority and his inability to be sullied by the ways of men. While outwardly he appears...
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In the town of Surat, in India, was a coffee-house where many travellers and foreigners from all parts of the world met and conversed. One day a learned Persian theologian visited this coffee-house. He was a man who had spent his life studying the nature of the Deity, and reading and writing books upon the subject. He had thought, read, and written so much about God, that eventually he lost his wits became quite confused, and ceased even to believe...
17) Tres muertes
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Una señora viaja en una diligencia camino de Italia, para intentar curarse de la grave infección tuberculosa que parece. Un cochero de diligencia, afectado de tuberculosis, acepta regalar a un joven sus magníficas botas, a cambio de que éste le lleve una buena lápida sobre su tumba... En este libro Tolstoi nos narra tres muertes conectadas entre sí por un vínculo natural.
Tolstoi refleja en este relato, que hasta para morir hay clases. Tres...
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After having passed from hand to hand, this letter at last came into my possession through a friend who asked me, as one much interested in Tolstoy's writings, whether I thought it worth publishing. I at once replied in the affirmative, and told him I should translate it myself into Gujarati and induce others' to translate and publish it in various Indian vernaculars.
19) El padre Sergio
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Atormentado por un desengaño amoroso, el príncipe Stepán Kasatski abandona el regimiento de la guardia del Zar Nicolái I e ingresa en un convento para hacerse monje con el nombre de Sergio. Es una obra de madurez, una profunda reflexión psicológica donde analiza con un estilo directo y poderoso la sinceridad de la fe y la búsqueda desesperada de la libertad.
20) Anna Karenina
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La historia se centra en una aventura extra matrimonial entre Ana y el apuesto oficial de caballería, el conde Alekséi Kirílovich Vronsky, que escandaliza a los círculos sociales de San Petersburgo y obliga a los jóvenes amantes a huir a Italia en busca de la felicidad, pero después de regresar a Rusia, sus vidas se desmoronan aún más. Muchos escritores la consideran una de las obras literarias más grandes jamás escritas.