Leo Tolstoy
121) War and Peace
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Escrito entre 1865 e 1869, "Guerra e Paz" é provavelmente a obra-prima de Tolstoi e uma das maiores criações literárias de sempre.
Tendo como pano de fundo um cenário de guerra, com a invasão da Rússia por parte das tropas napoleónicas, esta novela épica surge como uma reflexão sobre a vida humana e a sua frágil existência. Nesta obra grandiosa, as personagens amam, odeiam e lutam, mas acima de tudo anseiam por encontrar o sentido da...
123) Ma confession
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Extrait: "J'ai été baptisé et élevé selon les principes de l'Eglise chrétienne orthodoxe. On me les enseigna dès mon enfance, pendant toute mon adolescence et ma jeunesse. Mais, à dix-huit ans, après une seconde année d'Université, je ne croyais déjà plus à rien de ce qu'on m'avait appris. Certains souvenirs me donnent même à penser que jamais je n'ai cru sérieusement et que ce que je prenais pour la foi n'était que confiance en...
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Extrait : "Le 12 août 18.., juste le surlendemain du jour o j'avais eu dix ans et o j'avais reçu de si beaux cadeaux, Karl Ivanovitch me réveilla à sept heures du matin, en tuant une mouche au-dessus de ma tête avec un chasse-mouche en papier à pain de sucre, attaché au bout d'un bâton."
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125) La Guerre et la Paix
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Extrait : "Eh bien, prince, que vous disais-je ? Gênes et Lucques sont devenues les propriétés de la famille Bonaparte. Aussi, je vous le déclare d'avance, vous cesserez d'être mon ami, mon fidèle esclave, comme vous dites, si vous continuez à nier la guerre et si vous vous obstinez à défendre plus longtemps les horreurs et les atrocités commises par cet Antéchrist..."
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Extrait: "Trois heures. La partie est engagée. La salle est pleine. Parmi les habitués il y a un grand, un prince, un monsieur à moustaches, un petit hussard acteur autrefois. Le grand joue avec le prince. Je tourne autour du billard et je compte: dix et quarante-huit ; douze et quarante-huit. On le sait, c'est la besogne d'un marqueur. Eh ! me dis-je, sale métier ! Tu n'as pas encore eu le temps d'avaler une bouchée depuis hier."
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We know of no better introduction to the spiritual vision of one of the greatest writers of all time. This anthology vividly reveals – as none of his novels, novellas, short stories, plays, or essays could on its own – the great Russian novelist's fascination with the life and teachings of Jesus and the gospel themes of betrayal and forgiveness, sacrifice and redemption, death and resurrection. Drawn from War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection,...
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Four Classic Christmas Stories in One Volume! This book contains, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Story of the Other Wise Man Where Love Is, God Is by Leo Tolstoy. Each story explores the true meaning of Christmas and makes an excellent family read aloud.
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La muerte de Iván Ilich es una novela muy corta que explora brevemente la vida de Iván, un abogado que procura mantener un estatus social, una familia acostumbrada a un estilo de vida acomodado, una exitosa carrera profesional y una vida social activa hasta que comienza a padecer una extraña enfermedad.
130) El sueño (Completo)
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"El Sueño" de León Tolstoi es un cuento filosófico que explora el límite entre los sueños y la realidad. La narrativa plantea preguntas profundas sobre la naturaleza de la existencia y el papel de los sueños en nuestras vidas.
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León Tolstoi, o León Tolstoi, es un escritor famoso sobre todo por sus novelas y cuentos que describen la vida del pueblo ruso durante la época de los zares. Guerra y paz (1869), que Tolstoi tardó diez años en escribir y que es una de sus mayores novelas, pinta un retrato histórico y realista de todas las clases sociales en el momento de la invasión de Rusia por las tropas de Napoleón en 1812, en un vasto fresco de las complejidades de la...
132) Ilyas
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A story of a successful farmer Ilyas who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to loose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness however only after loosing all his possessions and achieving peace for himself and his wife. Read in English, unabridged.
133) Father Sergius
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Father Sergius is a short story by Leo Tolstoy and was published in 1911. It tells the story of a young prince — known as Stepan Kasatsky - who becomes a priest. In the court, he falls in love with Countess Mary Korotkova and becomes engaged to her. But soon he discovers his fiancée was once a mistress to the emperor, Tsar Nicholas I.
This incident devastates him and he decides to leave the court and becomes a monk. As he is an ambitious high...
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Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories. Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight found in his large novels. In fact, his short stories are an excellent place to begin reading this great author....
135) My Religion
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In My Religion, Leo Tolstoy accuses the church of hiding the true meaning of Jesus, which is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount and the call to resist evil. For Tolstoy, it is this command which has been most damaged by ecclesiastical interpretation. Tolstoy had not always been possessed of the religious ideas set forth in My Religion. For thirty-five years of his life he was, in the proper acceptation of the word, a nihilist-not a revolutionary...
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This group of 6 short stories has been hand selected by the publisher to provide a sampling of Tolstoy's thoughts about what it means to live out the Christian life. Tolstoy's short stories and novellas are considered to be some of the greatest penned in the 20th century. Many of these stories have strong Christian themes, revealing Tolstoy's own sincere faith along with important lessons and ideals. These stories often focus on self-sacrifice, the...
137) Guerra y paz
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Es una de las obras cumbres de la literatura rusa y sin lugar a dudas de la literatura universal. Se considera uno de los mejores logros literarios de Tolstói y sigue siendo un clásico de la literatura mundial alabado internacionalmente.
138) The Devil
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The Devil is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1911, after the write's death. It tells the story of a married landowner slowly overcome with unrelenting sexual desire for one of the peasants on his estate. Before his marriage, he had many sexual relationships with women while living in St. Petersburg. He inherited an estate in the country after the death of his father and he decided to leave the city. In his new life, he lives with his mother....
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Léon Tolstoï est né en 1828 dans une petite ville de Russie. Son enfance est frappée par le malheur, consécutivement, il subit la perte de sa mère puis de son père et de sa grand-mère. Son tempérament, très sensible, l'amène à se poser très jeune des questions sur les inégalités sociales qu'il voit autour de lui. Il se fait soldat et les scènes de guerre auxquelles il participe seront la source de son roman le plus connu Guerre et...