Works by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina
Description: Anna's world is turned upside down when her
life takes a precarious turn. Although she is married with a son, Anna
unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with Count Vrosky. Anna is
determined to follow her passions, and her elicit love affair with
Vrosky threatens to jeopardize her comfortable existence. Anna
Karenina
unravels into tragedy as the story's characters are confronted with
dilemmas of faith, love, happiness, and betrayal. Tolstoy's profound
depiction of human emotion and self-discovery provokes readers to
question the meaning of life. Often construed as Tolstoy's greatest
novel, Anna Karenina beautifully illustrates the political and
social
atmosphere of Russia during the 19th century. Anna Karenina is a
deeply
moving narrative which wrestles with the contradictions that beleaguer
human happiness.
Emmalon Davis
CCEL Staff
Writer
- Confession
- Death of Ivan Ilych
- Family Happiness
- Father Sergius
- Hadji Murad
- Kreutzer Sonata
- Master and Man
- Twenty-Three Tales [from Digitization and markup by Harry Plantinga]
Description: Famous for his longer novels, War and Peace and
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy displays his
mastery of the short story in Twenty-Three Tales. This
volume is organized by topic into seven different
segments. Part I is filled with stories for children,
while Part 2 is filled with popular stories for adult. In
Part 3, Tolstoy discreetly condemns capitalism in his
fairy tale "Ivan the Fool." Part 4 contains several short
stories, which were originally published with
illustrations to encourage the inexpensive reproduction of pictorial
works. Part 5 features a number of Russian folk tales, which address the
themes of greed, societal conflict, prayer, and virtue. Part 6 contains
two French short stories, which Tolstoy translated and modified.
Finally, Part 7 contains a group of parabolic short stories that Tolstoy
dedicated to the Jews of Russia, who were persecuted in the early
1900's. Entertaining for all ages, Tolstoy's creative short stories are
overflowing with deeper, often spiritual, meaning.
Emmalon
Davis
CCEL Staff Writer
- Works of Guy de Maupassant
