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An abridged version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Anna (Bergman) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Peck).

Hadji Murad, Tolstoy's final novel, tells the story of a real-life Caucasian Avar general who served under Imam Shamil, the leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucuses and, for a time, Russia's greatest enemy. Hadji Murad plans to defect to the Russians and then lead a Russian-backed army to defeat Shamil.

This audiobook contains a classic tale of army life from the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Set in the early 1800s, this short novel poignantly portrays the day-to-day lives of Hussars. Tolstoy expertly evokes the tensions between the values of one generation and the next.

This is the third book in the Childhood, Boyhood, Youth trilogy. Childhood was the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released in November 1852. It was the first in a series of three novels and was followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just 23 years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists for such works as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He also wrote a number of outstanding short stories. This is one of his best.

In this novella, Tolstoy brilliantly shows how a single crime - the counterfeiting of currency (coupons) - leads to a whole series of bloody crimes and death.

This short novel, published after Tolstoy's death, is the last novel the great author wrote. It tells the true story of Hadji Murad (or Hadji Murat, alternatively), an Avar who commanded the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya in their resistance against assimilation into the Russian empire. Tolstoy had first heard of Murad during his travels, and the author became inspired by Murad's refusal to give in to the demands of a corrupt world. Hadji Murad shares many of the same themes found in War and Peace.

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself.

This book contains instructive stories - a collection of fine stories and parables on the theme of morality - by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

Tolstoy's final work - a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers - is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who has fought fiercely and courageously against the Russian empire. After a feud with his commander he defects to the Russians, only to find that he is now trusted by neither side. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

This audiobook contains two of Tolstoy's most celebrated stories. "The Diary of a Madman" and "The Devil" are partially autobiographical. Both involve journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that are also themes of Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive society in accepting the domination of a higher culture. This is a brilliant exploration of the themes of individuality and social identity.

En 1928 durante la invasión de Napoleón a Rusia, cinco familias, algunas pobres y otras aristocráticas viven con miseria y tragedia de perder a sus seres queridos en la guerra.

This audiobook contains the story "Snowstorm", by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). One of Tolstoy's most well-received works of realism, this prose-poem-like short story looks at the behaviors of people in extreme situations and their belief in their abilities to survive.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Con la invasión napoleónica en Rusia entre los años 1805 y 1813 como trasfondo, la novela sigue la historia épica de cinco familias rusas de alta alcurnia. Es una obra extraordinaria que incluye personajes históricos y de ficción, alternando en su magnífica trama historias familiares con las vicisitudes del ejército napoleónico.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter verliebt sich die jungfräuliche Mascha in ihren älteren Vormund, zwischen beiden entwickelt sich eine sanfte Liebesbeziehung und beide ziehen nach der Heirat auf sein Gut Nikolskoe. Aber schon bald nach der Hochzeit wird der lebenslustigen und quirligen Frau das doch recht eintönige Landleben zu langweilig und sie sehnt sich nach dem Glanz der Petersburger Tanzbälle. Dabei gefährdet sie ihre Ehe und ihr Familienglück, indem sie der Vergnügungssucht verfällt.

Sota ja rauha seuraa viittä aatelisperhettä - Bezuhovien sukua, Bolkonskien sukua, Rostovien sukua, Kuraginien sukua sekä Drubetskovien sukua - Napoleonin hyökätessä Venäjälle 1800-luvun alussa. Nämä maailmanhistoriaa muokanneet tapahtumat ravistelevat myös tsaarinaikaista, mahtavaa venäläistä imperiumia. Tärkeä osa romaania on Austerlitzin taistelu, joka toimi alkusoittona Napoleonin myöhemmille yrityksille hyökätä Venäjää vastaan. Eräs päähenkilöistä, prinssi Andrei, päätyy taistelun melskeissä ranskalaisten vangiksi ja tapaa suuresti arvostamansa keisari Napoleonin.

Sota ja rauha seuraa viittä aatelisperhettä - Bezuhovien sukua, Bolkonskien sukua, Rostovien sukua, Kuraginien sukua sekä Drubetskovien sukua - Napoleonin hyökätessä Venäjälle 1800-luvun alussa. Nämä maailmanhistoriaa muokanneet tapahtumat ravistelevat myös tsaarinaikaista, mahtavaa venäläistä imperiumia. Tärkeä osa romaania on Austerlitzin taistelu, joka toimi alkusoittona Napoleonin myöhemmille yrityksille hyökätä Venäjää vastaan. Eräs päähenkilöistä, prinssi Andrei, päätyy taistelun melskeissä ranskalaisten vangiksi ja tapaa suuresti arvostamansa keisari Napoleonin.

Im Zug unterhalten sich die Reisenden über die Liebe als Voraussetzung für eine gute Ehe. Zum Schluss äußert sich Posdnyschew - der Mörder seiner Frau... Die berühmte Novelle Tolstois ist ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur.