Short Stories, Leo Tolstoy
Short Stories, Leo Tolstoy
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Short Stories

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Bart Wolffe

Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

A selection of short stories by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, considered to be one of the greatest writers of the genre his stories are often guided by his moralistic views.

About Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in central Russia and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of dissipation until 1851, when he went to the Caucasus and joined an artillery regiment. He took part in the Crimean War, and on the basis of this experience wrote The Sevastopol Stories, which confirmed his tenuous reputation as a writer.

After a period in St. Petersburg and abroad, where he studied educational methods for use in his school for peasant children at Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy married Sofya Behrs in 1862. The next fifteen years was a period of great happiness: the couple had thirteen children, and Tolstoy managed his estates, continued his educational projects, and wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

A Confession marked a spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life; he became an extreme moralist, and in a series of pamphlets written after 1880, he expressed his rejection of state and church, indictment of the weaknesses of the flesh, and denunciation of private property. He published his last novel, Resurrection, in 1900.

Tolstoy's teaching earned him many followers at home and abroad, but also much opposition, and in 1901 he was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. He died in 1910.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Val on January 19, 2019

We have in th is book the political views of one man. Conditions in Russia are stringent and the outlook bleak. I'm glad i live on the other side of the world.......more

Goodreads review by Alvi Harahap on December 25, 2011

Dalam A Happy Married Life-nya Tolstoy bercerita tentang seorang perempuan muda bernama Masha, Marya Alexandrovna, yang berusia 17 tahun. Masha jatuh cinta pada teman baik ayahnya sekaligus walinya, Sergei Mihailovich yang jauh jauh lebih tua darinya. Ini bukan hanya cerita jatuh cintanya Masha, tap......more

Goodreads review by Udhayt on December 16, 2014

I read in my schooldays that Tamil Poet Barathi was fond of Leo Tolstoy's literature. After reading this, I realized why he loved Tolstoy's work. We could enjoy the literature much better in its own language. Though it was translated version, it didn't lose its taste much. Good one.......more