A famous legend surrounding the creation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. "Anna Kareni[...]
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Compiled by the great Russian novelist and once banned by Lenin, this classic daybook features inspirational and moral wisdom from the world's most sacred texts, as well as the works of Cicero, Rousseau, Emerson, Gogol, and other great thinkers. 30,000 first printing.[...]
From the award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov" comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.
War and Peace""broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bez[...]
In the words of the translator of this volume "The Kingdom of God is Within You" is "one of the most remarkable studies of the social and psychological condition of the modern world." In "The Kingdom of God is Within You" Tolstoy expounds upon his earlier work "What I Believe." Tolstoy believes that[...]