Describing family life set against the backdrop of war, this novel follows the fortunes of the Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, invade Russia and end in Napoleon's defeat. It captures national events, private experiences of individuals, and the triangle of affection that binds the central characters.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenceless when her passions are unleashed by Count Vronsky. Having defied the rules of 19th-century Russian society, Anna pays a heavy price. The music is from Rubinstein, Balakirev, Vitols, Ivanovici, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

One of the world's greatest novels, most people are intimidated by the length of the original novel, yet this audiobook recording makes it accessible to even the laziest reader. A huge, panoramic account of Russia at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and the lives of three aristocratic families who include the memorable Prince Andrei, Pierre and Natasha. This important novel covers all the .

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During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one.

Another title in the Collector's Library Series. Complete and unabridged with a specially commissioned afterword.

Divided into three parts, this volume includes tales and fables. Part 1 consists of stories about the author's own childhood. Part 2 contains his free adaptations of fables from Aesop and from Hindu tradition. Part 3 is devoted to his most famous children's work, the fairy tale Ivan the Fool and His Two Brothers.

A thirty-five strong cast, including Leo McKern as Kutuzov, Simon Russell Beale as Pierre Bezuhov, Emily Mortimer as Natasha Rostov and Gerard Murphy as Andrei Bolkonsky, bring all the passion and turbulence of Tolstoy's epic masterpiece to the airwaves in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.

This is a reader covering Tolstoy's later beliefs after he had rejected orthodox religion. The book mainly draws on Confession (1879), What is My Faith? (1884) and other occasional pieces.

Maude's excellent translation of Tolstoy's treatise on the emotionalist theory of art was the first unexpurgated version of the work to appear in any language. More than ninety years later this work remains, as Vincent Tomas observed, one of the most rigorous attacks on formalism and on the doctrine of art for art's sake ever written . Tomas' Introduction makes this the edition of choice for ...

A new 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.

A fictionalized account of the author's own early experience, which ranks with Turgenev's Huntsman's Sketches as a masterpiece of 19th-century Russian pastoral life.

An original selection of stories from standard editions.

A collection of short fiction by the distinguished Russian writer includes the story Alyosha the Pot, as well as such novellas as The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness, Master and Man, The Devil, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Serguis, and Hadgi Maurat. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Offers an integration of the four biblical Gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus. This title explains that the author's goal is a solution to 'the problem of life', not an answer to theological or historical questions. It focuses on the words and teachings of Jesus, what the author regarded as the Church's distortions.