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This is an illustrated edition featuring elegant artwork, a complete summary, an author biography, and a full characters list. Anna Karenina is Leo Tolstoy’s profound and emotionally rich masterpiece, exploring love, betrayal, family, and the search for meaning within the complex worlds of Russian society. At its heart is the passionate yet tragic romance between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, a relationship that challenges social conventions and ultimately leads to heartbreaking consequences. Parallel to Anna’s story is the journey of Konstantin Levin, whose struggles with faith, responsibility, and fulfillment provide a powerful counterbalance to the drama of high society. Together, these intertwined narratives create one of the most compelling portraits of human experience ever written. This beautifully illustrated edition enhances Tolstoi’s timeless novel with expressive artwork that brings key moments and characters to life. A clear and engaging summary guides readers through the story’s major events and themes, while the included author biography offers valuable insight into Tolstoi’s life, beliefs, and literary genius. A detailed characters list supports readers as they navigate the novel’s extensive cast, making this classic more accessible and enjoyable. Perfect for students, collectors, classic literature enthusiasts, and anyone encountering Anna Karenina for the first time, this edition provides a visually enriched and reader-friendly experience. Rediscover the emotional depth, philosophical insight, and narrative brilliance of one of the greatest novels ever written in a beautifully crafted format designed to inform and inspire.

'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn't it?' How does love die? This question lies at the heart of Tolstoy's desperately sad novella. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Masha who, despite their differences, falls passionately in love with an older man, and marries him. Soon, however, the gap between them becomes unbridgeable.

Youth (1857) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Youth is the third in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka’s journey from innocence to experience. As a record of the past, a nostalgic reminder of a lost world, Youth is one of Tolstoy’s most personal works, and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes that would inspire such masterpieces as War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A story of life and death, love and grief, Youth is an invaluable treasure of Russian literature. “Nevertheless there came a moment when those thoughts swept into my head with a sudden freshness and force of moral revelation which left me aghast at the amount of time which I had been wasting, and made me feel as though I must at once—that very second—apply those thoughts to life, with the firm intention of never again changing them. It is from that moment that I date the beginning of my youth.” Centered on his friendship with Dmitri and the trials he faces on his way to attending university, the final installment of Tolstoy’s trilogy finds Nikolenko on the cusp of adulthood, filled with passions and ideas that form his sense of individuality. As his story unfolds, we see him experience love, grief, and anger for the first time in his life, returning us for a brief moment to our own childhoods, the bittersweet memories of good and bad things that can never return. Praised for its expressionistic style and meditative prose, Youth won Tolstoy the attention of Russia’s literary elite, launching his career as one of the nineteenth century’s most influential artists. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Leo Tolstoy’s Youth is a classic work of Russian literature reimagined for modern readers.

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The Awakening, or The Resurrection as it is sometimes translated as, by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1899, was the last novel written by the famed author. The novel is a stunning rebuke of the hypocrisy of the church and the injustice of the laws. Tolstoy uses the novel as a means to explore Georgism, a system in which economic value is derived from the land, and that it should be owned equally. Odin''s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind''s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

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Leo Tolstoy's vivid and abundant recollections of his formative years are filled with insight into his parents, upbringing, first love, and the politics and even weather of the Russian Empire. This collection combines the three semi-autobiographical works Leo Tolstoy authored regarding his youth and childhood. Together they form not merely a dramatized memoir, but a convincing portrait of a gifted young talent rapidly blossoming into the literary giant he would become. With little evidence of the darker themes of foreboding, murder and betrayal that would appear in his later works, Tolstoy nevertheless offers a series of spellbinding recollections. Although he applies a measure of drama and fiction to his upbringing for the entertainment of readers, Tolstoy already radiates the philosophical and profound in his words. A sensitive and observant young soul, he nevertheless displays many of the flaws typical to youth; he is by turns selfish, proud, stubborn and single-minded in his pursuit of goals. While his early life is comparatively lacking in drama when compared with his novels, it is clear that Tolstoy's style was already taking form. This edition of Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth makes use of the original translation by C. J. Hogarth. A renowned translator of Russian fiction and non-fiction in the early 20th century, we find in his work an authentic reproduction of Tolstoy's spirited words and sentiments.

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 an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. Includes vintage illustration!

It is an excellent history book for individuals who love history book.

The story of a brilliant officer who renounces the world to become a monk. But the further he pushes the world away, the more it comes to his door.

"Work, Death, and Sickness" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1903. The story takes the form of a parable about the creation of work, death, and sickness. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

"Alyosha the Pot" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy and a masterpiece of rare perfection. Alyosha, a young child who lives in a village and obtained the nickname "the Pot" from an incident where he broke a pot in his youth, is sent to live with a merchant's family as a servant. He falls in love with Ustinja, a young girl who cooks for the merchant's family. Eventually he asks Ustinja to marry him, but his father scolds him and tells him that marriage will come when and with whom the father chooses. Later during Lent, Alyosha is clearing snow from the roof when he falls to his death. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don''t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ''faithful slave,'' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news." It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world''s greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. -wikipedia

'War and Peace' relates the destiny of characters who symbolize Russian society, especially three noble families - the Rostovs, the Bolkonski family, and the Bezukhovs - over a period of 15 years, against a backdrop of historical events.

The present volume contains two contrasting treatises. The first is religious, and shows in Count Tolstoys earnest and eloquent manner the meaning of Christ's words which he takes for his text, -- The Kingdom of God is within you". The outward forms of religion, however helpful they may be to some souls, are not essential; the superstitions with which Faith sometimes clothes or masks herself may or may not be uplifting; but the foundation of Christianity is the truth contained in Christ's words, his simple, plain, undogmatic commands and prohibitions"

Presents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy''s beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life. Contains two booklets ("About Immortality" No. 751 and "About Death" No. 752) compiled by Tolstoy comprising quotations from various philosophers explaining the meaning that death gives to life; essays explaining the actions that Tolstoy thought must be taken to grow spiritually; and finally, diary entries (translated here for the first time in English) pertaining to spiritual themes made during the last year of Tolstoy''s life.