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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil’s prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.

Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok, Russia, fresh out of fashion school in Geneva. She is there to design the costumes for a trio of artists who are due to perform one of the most dangerous acts of all: the Russian Bar. As winter approaches, the season at Vladivostok is winding down, leaving the windy port city empty as the performers rush off to catch trains, boats, and buses home; all except the Russian bar trio and their manager. They are scheduled to perform at a festival in Ulan Ude, just before Christmas.

The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

Noches Blancas es un emotivo relato ambientado en las etéreas noches de verano de San Petersburgo, donde la oscuridad nunca es total. A través de sus páginas, el lector sigue a un solitario soñador que, por azar, encuentra a una mujer enigmática en un puente. Durante cuatro noches consecutivas, se sumergen en profundas conversaciones, compartiendo sus anhelos, sueños y desilusiones. Esta obra, cargada de melancolía y romanticismo, es un deslumbrante testimonio de la eterna lucha entre la soledad y la esperanza, entre el sueño y la realidad.

Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores. But a chance meeting at a train station in Moscow sets her passionate heart alight, and she is defenceless in the face of Count Vronsky's adoration. Having defied the rules of nineteenth-century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price.

In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia.

Un campesino de mente sencilla recibe la visita de tres demonios, cuyo fin es provocar su ruina familiar. A medida que Iván enfrenta sus pruebas, su vida desprovista de prejuicios revela la esencia pura de la humanidad. En esta historia llena de moralejas, el maestro Tolstói nos invita a reflexionar sobre la verdadera inteligencia, el valor del trabajo y la humildad. Una profunda historia que cautivará a lectores de todas las edades.

Russie, début du XIXe siècle. À l'Ouest de l'Empire, les guerres napoléoniennes font rage et se rapprochent dangereusement des frontières. De Moscou à Saint-Pétersbourg, la noblesse et la grande bourgeoisie vivent inconscientes du danger, et organisent dîners et bals. Ainsi le comte Rostov qui s'apprête à célébrer la fête de sa fille Natacha ; du prince André Bolkonski et de sa jeune épouse, Lise, enceinte.

Tolstói nos presenta tres visiones distintas y profundas de la muerte a través de la experiencia de sus protagonistas: una dama de la aristocracia, un árbol y un cochero. Cada relato sumerge al lector en una introspección sobre la vida, el significado de la existencia y la inevitabilidad del final. Tolstói, con su magistral habilidad narrativa, nos desafía a reflexionar sobre nuestra propia mortalidad y la de la naturaleza que nos rodea, mostrándonos que la muerte puede ser vista desde múltiples perspectivas, no solo como el fin, sino también como una transformación y liberación.

The story is an absurd, comic, surreal, and sometimes grotesque send up of Major Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning to find his nose missing. The story has three parts. In part one, Kovalyov's barber finds his client's nose in his breakfast and is nabbed by the police when he tries to throw it off a bridge. In part two, Kovalyov awakes to find his nose gone.

Akaki Akakievitch Baschmaschkin, fonctionnaire à Saint-Petersbourg, copie des actes à longueur de journée. Un jour, une constatation vient bouleverser le rythme paisible de ses journées : son manteau est usé jusqu'à la corde, et doit être remplacé. Alors, il se met à économiser, jour après jour, pour se payer un nouveau manteau. Enfin, il parvient à se l'offrir. Mais, en rentrant d'une fête organisée par ses collègues pour célébrer l'événement, Akaki est agressé et son manteau est volé.

One of the most important and influential Russian writers of the 19th century, Fyodor Dostoevsky is admired worldwide for his great realist novels, exploring questions of morality, philosophy and the nature of existence. This compilation contains the BBC radio productions of his four most famous novels - as well as three lesser-known works and two bonus documentaries - collected together for the first time.

В романе "Идиот" Достоевский стремился, по его словам, "изобразить вполне прекрасного человека".

Drawing on three of the greatest works of Russian literature, this sweeping collection breathes new life into Leo Tolstoy’s legacy, providing contemporary listeners with an easy, accessible way to discover and enjoy this great Russian author’s literary talents. With gripping prose and profound philosophical insights, listeners will be transported to the battles of the Napoleonic era in War and Peace, explore the trials and tribulations of upper-class Russian life and love in Anna Karenina, and uncover a controversial reflection on Russian culture.

Hailed as a masterpiece on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.

Fjodor Dostojevski was een Russische schrijver. Beschouwd als een van de grootste Russische schrijvers, beïnvloedde hij veel schrijvers en filosofen. Werd luitenant, nam hij ontslag uit het leger in 1859 en volledig ingrijpt schrijven. Bewonderde schrijver na de publicatie van "Misdaad en Straf" (1866) en "The Idiot" (1869), de auteur publiceert dan de twee meest succesvolle werken: "The Demons" (1871) en "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880).

Anton Tsjechov of Tsjechov was een Russische schrijver. Tijdens het oefenen als arts, publiceerde hij meer dan 600 literaire werken; sommige stukken vaak opgevoerd op dit moment - "De Meeuw', "The Cherry Orchard", "Oom Wanja" - maken hem tot een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Russische literatuur, met name voor zijn manier van beschrijven van het leven in de Russische provincie de late negentiende eeuw.

À la suite du traité de Tilsit, la paix semble à nouveau s'établir durablement en Europe. Et chacun de retourner à ses occupations d'avant-guerre. Les bals, les fêtes, l'insouciance des vies reprennent de plus belle, d'autant que beaucoup ont vu la mort de près et sont revenus auréolés de gloire. Les alliances entre les familles se nouent et se dénouent au gré des amours. Chacun pousse ses pions pour trouver le bon parti au mépris des autres même de ses anciens camarades de guerre.