Román Vojna a mír se řadí mezi nejvýznamnější díla nejen ruské, ale i světové literatury. Popisuje Napoleonovo tažení do Ruska a obraz každodenního života v carském absolutismu z pohledu pěti aristokratických rodin. O milostná vzplanutí a líčení... Zobraziť viac
Annu Kareninu" po pravu nazyvaiut samym izvestnym i populiarnym v mire romanom o liubvi. "Ogromnaia razrabotka dushi chelovecheskoi", kak otzyvalsia o knige Dostoevskii, ?2?' vot, navernoe, chto bolshe vsego podkupaet nas v etoi knige.... Zobraziť viac
Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask: is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?... Zobraziť viac
Das literarische Schaffen von Leo Tolstoi kreist immer wieder um die Frage nach dem rechten Leben. In seinen Geschichten ebenso wie seinen Romanen sind Menschen auf Abwegen unterwegs oder auf dem Pfad der Erkenntnis. Sie reißen das Ruder ihres... Zobraziť viac
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed ... Zobraziť viac
Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who Zobraziť viac
Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity... Zobraziť viac
Tells the story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing soldier, Count Vronsky. This work is a study of passionate love set against the background of pre-Bolshevik Russia at the time of the development of the Russian railway... Zobraziť viac
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man’s intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice…greed and devotion ... Zobraziť viac
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt... Zobraziť viac
It is certainly a lot easier to read War and Peace as a hardcover. Having it divided into different volumes would be... Zobraziť viac
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers... Zobraziť viac
Classic / British English. Anna Karenina, one of world literature’s greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls in love with a handsome... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel. About the Author Leo Tolstoy... Zobraziť viac
Describes Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'... Zobraziť viac
War looms in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, and when Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those whose lives it engulfs. Although told on a panoramic scale Tolstoy's epic novel focuses the chaos of battle... Zobraziť viac
The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence... Zobraziť viac
