

Short Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Bart Wolffe
Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saland Publishing
Published: 11/01/2013
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Bart Wolffe
Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saland Publishing
Published: 11/01/2013
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
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.
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
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
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