Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
‘Love… it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.’ At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate ...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy and Andrew Kahn (ed.)
‘No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied.’ As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In ‘The ...
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The Devil and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy and Richard F. Gustafson (ed.)
‘It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.’ This collection of eleven stories spans ...
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Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy and Richard F. Gustafson (ed.)
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends ...
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy and Amy Mandelker
If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.’ Isaac Babel Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and ...
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