Leo Tolstoy
81) After the Dance
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"After The Dance" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. The main character Ivan sets out to prove that it is all by chance. Yet in the end, he seems to prove that it is by environment.
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During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his friends: a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide—ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own spiritual meditations.
Thoughtful Wisdom for Every Day comprises Tolstoy's own most essential ideas about spirituality and what it is to live a good...
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Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master of the short story and the long story--the particularly Russian form known as povest'. Each of the tales in this collection exhibits the rich detail, vivid narration, and startling truths that characterize Tolstoy's famous novels. Two unusual, intriguing short stores - "Three Deaths" and "The Three Hermits"...
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Un texte précurseur de l'esthétique moderne.
Dans un texte passionné, virulent et controversé, Léon Tolstoï nous livre sa vision de l'art, au-delà de la notion du beau. Communication à travers l'imagination plutt que simple satisfaction des goûts d'une élite, pour l'auteur le sens de l'art réside dans sa capacité à transmettre des sentiments universels. La destination de l'art serait donc de transporter du domaine de la raison à celui...
86) Kholstomer
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"Kholstomer" is one of the most striking stories in Russian literature. It was started by Leo Tolstoy in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The story prominently features the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions.
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In this carefully constructed critical essay, written in 1894, Tolstoy admonishes a government that wages war by arousing patriotic fervor and a Church that supports such a government's policies. His argument-that war and patriotism have nothing in common with the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance-continues to resound today.
88) Hadji Mourat
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«Hadji Mourat» est une des œuvres les plus puissantes de Tolstoï, le géant de la littérature russe, et une des ses toutes dernières, qu'il n'a cessé de réécrire à la fin de sa vie. Elle conte la vie héroïque d'un véritable chef de guerre du Caucase du XIXe siècle, Hadji Mourat, qui combattit l'Empire russe et son expansion.
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Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay 'What Is Art', by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his works. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
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Lew Nikolajewitsch Graf Tolstoi, deutsch häufig auch Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910), war ein russischer Schriftsteller. Seine Hauptwerke "Krieg und Frieden" und "Anna Karenina" sind Klassiker des realistischen Romans, die seinen literarischen Ruhm begründeten....
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During the last years of his life, Leo Tolstoy kept one book invariably on his desk, read and reread it to his family, and recommended it to all his friends: a compendium of wise thoughts gathered over the course of a decade from his wide-ranging readings in philosophy and religion, and from his own spiritual meditations. It was banned under the Communists, and only one volume, A Calendar of Wisdom, drawn largely from the writings of other famous...
92) Three Deaths
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"Three Deaths" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1859. It narrates the deaths of three subjects: a noblewoman, a coachman and a tree.
93) Le Faux Coupon
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Écrit en 1904, mais publié de façon posthume en 1911, Le Faux Coupon est une des dernières œuvres de Léon Tolstoï.
Deux lycéens, pour payer une dette, commettent un faux. Passant de main en main, celui-ci va semer le malheur mais aussi la rédemption. En montrant l'enchaînement terrible des actes humains et de leurs conséquences, Tolstoï donne à son récit l'intemporalité des paraboles bibliques.
Traduction et préface de Pierre Skorov,...
94) Aloysha the Pot
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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy.
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Follow the renowned novelist's journey to his own peace. Leo Tolstoy was born to an aristocratic Russian family, became a world-famous influential novelist, and then chose to lead the simple life of a peasant. Dating from this last part of his life, Tolstoy's influential book, What I Believe, takes readers along on the path to a life modeled literally on Jesus Christ's "Sermon on the Mount" and the teachings of the Gospels. In revealing and frank...
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The four classic tales in this volume illuminate Leo Tolstoy's radical orientation toward war and commerce, revealing his vision for a sustainable, peaceable world. The feature story, Ivan the Fool, presents an archetypal fool who works hard, cooperates with everyone, and manages to foil every attempt to cause his downfall. In the end, peasant life comes out on top, while the pillars of imperial Russian society topple down. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria...
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It once occurred to a King that if he knew the right moment when to begin on any work and the right kind of people to have or not to have dealings with and the thing to do that was more important than any other thing, he would always be successful. And he proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to anyone who could tell him what was the right moment for any action, and who were the most essential of all people, and what...
98) The Empty Drum
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"The Empty Drum" is a short story by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. A man took a woman for his wife that the king of the country had an eye on. So the king decided to overwork the man till he died so he could then marry his wife. But each time the man completed his task on time. Even when the tasks were impossible like building a cathedral in a day or a river with ships in it by nightfall his wife assured him it would be done and it was as she said....
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¡Un referente de la literatura universal, considerada como la mejor novela de la historia!
Considerada por muchos eruditos como la mejor novela de la historia, Guerra y Paz es un referente de la literatura universal que en pleno siglo XXI sigue conmoviendo tanto como el año de su primera publicación. Con las guerras napoleónicas de trasfondo, esta obra infinita nos habla de unas batallas aún mayores: los combates internos del ser humano entre...
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Extrait: "Les Doutlof sont bien à plaindre, madame. Ce sont tous de braves gens. Si nous ne nous mettons pas sur la liste un des serfs attachés à la maison, ce sera le tour d'un des fils Doutlof. Mais il sera fait selon votre volonté. Il posa sa main droite sur la gauche, les mit sur son ventre, courba légèrement sa tête, serra ses lèvres minces, ferma les yeux et se prépara évidemment à écouter avec patience toutes les sottises que lui...