Written by Graf Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
by Graf Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina is a novel by Russian author Graf Leo Tolstoy. The story of woman, who once mediated to solve family problems on account of adulteries of his brother, fall herself in a similar situation later. Anna Karenina, wife of Karenin a statesman. Infatuated, fell in love and later married to a young cavalry officer, Anna’s activities are consi..
My Religion
by Graf Leo TolstoyMy Religion written by Leo Tolstoy is a sequel to the author’s earlier work “A Confession”. We all go through and believe in certain philosophies as our life passes. What we believed once good and evil changes over time. Irrespective one’s intelligence or education, all are equal in front of God. While all of us can underst..
War and Peace
by Graf Leo TolstoyWar and Peace written by Graf Leo Tolstoy is a longest novel, though the author himself does not consider it to be in the standards of Russian literature of a novel, but he considers his Anna Karenina as a novel written himself. War and Peace is the impact of French invasion of Russia and its impact on the society seen through five aristoc..
Katia
by Graf Leo TolstoyKatia is a novel written by the Russian novelist Graf Leo Tolstoy, whose realistic fiction novels War and Peace, and Anna Karenina earned him the popularity of “one of the world’s greatest novelists”. Other than the masterpieces his notable works of short stories and novels include Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth..
What Men Live By and Other Tales
by Graf Leo TolstoyWhat Men Live By and Other Tales is a collection of most popular short stories written by the Russian novelist Graf Leo Tolstoy, who is remembered for his novels War and peace, A Confession, and Anna Karenina. This collection contains three short stories titled as What do men live by?, How Much Land Does a Man Need?, and Twenty-three Tales/The Coff..
What Is Art?
by Graf Leo TolstoyAn estimable and charming Russian lady I knew, felt the charm of the music and ritual of the services of the Russo-Greek Church so strongly that she wished the peasants, in whom she was interested, to retain their blind faith, though she herself disbelieved the church doctrines. “Their lives are so poor and bare—they have so little art, so little p..
The Devil
by Graf Leo TolstoyTowards the end of 1880, when he was fifty-two, Tolstoy one day approached the young tutor who lived in his house at Yasnaya Polyana, and in great agitation asked him to do him a service. The tutor, seeing Tolstoy so moved, asked what he could possibly do for him. In an unready voice Tolstoy replied: "Save me, I am falling!" The tutor, in alarm, in..