Download or read book Anna Karenina in 101 Pages written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina in 1875, thirteen years after he was married to his beloved wife Sophia. It is clear from recovered diaries that he was devoted to her but also struggled with what he called a "torturous struggle of lust" and was very open with Sophia that "he was not in control of himself." Tolstoy and Sophia had 13 children and their marriage survived to the end of Tolstoy's life. At the age of 82 and upset with the unhappiness he felt in his marriage and life, he snuck out of his house and onto a train bound for a secluded place. However, he caught pneumonia on the first day of travel and passed away near a train station. Though open about her marital unhappiness, Sophia did not waver in her loyalty for Leo and at the end confessed, "The truth is I have much love." Anna Karenina, as it was originally written by Tolstoy in his native Russian, is considered by many to be the greatest work of literature. Unfortunately, not very many people can read it from cover to cover. It's too heavy, to thick with complicated character names and digressions that confuse and stifle the average reader. Most of the interpretations into English are too strict and lose Tolstoy's original context and meaning. Anna Karenina in 101 Pages is A Fresh Interpretation of a Timeliness Story of Romance, Marital Discord, Affair and Forgiveness, Adultery and Suicide. It is a new translation with an updated vocabulary that will grab your attention and hold it from start to finish. Characters and their names have been simplified and the plot has been refined to a clear and concise format. Don't let the word "abridgment" scare you away from this book. It is a complete book, a new chance to discover one of the world's greatest story's ever written. Learn more and find other Abridged classics at www.Contemplatebooks.com

Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Jennifer Adams and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn words associated with fashion as toddlers are introduced to Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes photographs, a 10,000-word section on Tolstoy s life and works, with a longer chapter on "Anna Karenina," anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations, and spin-offsConsidered to be Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, this resonant story scrutinizes fundamental moral and theological questions through the impassioned and tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity, Anna experiences passion thatdrives her to adultery, flying in the face of the Russian bourgeoisie. In the backgroundof Anna's tale, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in. Championed by Dostoevsky and Nabokov, this masterpiece of Russian literature displays a poignant realism and innovative lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time."

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

Download or read book How to Use Your Enemies written by Baltasar Gracián and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658). Gracián's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.

Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."

Download or read book Anna Karenina Complete written by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im Hause der Oblonskiy herrschte allgemeine Verwirrung. Die Dame des Hauses hatte in Erfahrung gebracht, daß ihr Gatte mit der im Hause gewesenen französischen Gouvernante ein Verhältnis unterhalten, und ihm erklärt, sie könne fürderhin nicht mehr mit ihm unter einem Dache bleiben. Diese Situation währte bereits seit drei Tagen und sie wurde nicht allein von den beiden Ehegatten selbst, nein auch von allen Familienmitgliedern und dem Personal aufs Peinlichste empfunden. Sie alle fühlten, daß in ihrem Zusammenleben kein höherer Gedanke mehr liege, daß die Leute, welche auf jeder Poststation sich zufällig träfen, noch enger zu einander gehörten, als sie, die Glieder der Familie selbst, und das im Hause geborene und aufgewachsene Gesinde der Oblonskiy. Die Herrin des Hauses verließ ihre Gemächer nicht, der Gebieter war schon seit drei Tagen abwesend. Die Kinder liefen wie verwaist im ganzen Hause umher, die Engländerin schalt auf die Wirtschafterin und schrieb an eine Freundin, diese möchte ihr eine neue Stellung verschaffen, der Koch hatte bereits seit gestern um die Mittagszeit das Haus verlassen und die Köchin, sowie der Kutscher hatten ihre Rechnungen eingereicht. Am dritten Tage nach der Scene erwachte der Fürst Stefan Arkadjewitsch Oblonskiy — Stiwa hieß er in der Welt — um die gewöhnliche Stunde, das heißt um acht Uhr morgens, aber nicht im Schlafzimmer seiner Gattin, sondern in seinem Kabinett auf dem Saffiandiwan. Er wandte seinen vollen verweichlichten Leib auf den Sprungfedern des Diwans, als wünsche er noch weiter zu schlafen, während er von der andern Seite innig ein Kissen umfaßte und an die Wange drückte. Plötzlich aber sprang er empor, setzte sich aufrecht und öffnete die Augen.

Download or read book Three Novellas written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tolstoy's last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny's irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and helplessness in the face of his urges. Also included in this volume is Family Happiness, one of Tolstoy's earliest works, an entertaining and cynical account of marriage from the perspective of a disillusioned wife, and A Landowner's Morning.

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Download or read book Anna Karenina Illustrated written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 2316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; Russian pronunciation: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə])[1] is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers going to Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it to be flawless as a work of art. His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style, and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as the best ever written.[2] The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten in Time, which declared that Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written

Download or read book Anna Karenina written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Phoenix Press (CA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Karenina is the heart-wrenching tale of a woman who recklessly throws away everything she has for a passionate affair with a young soldier. Beautiful, popular, wife to a wealthy man and mother to an adored son, Anna seems to be in an enviable position. However, it takes only one encounter with Count Vronsky to fill her with the sense that her life has hitherto been empty. As the rest of the world fades into insignificance next to her great love, Anna faces an impossible choice¿

Download or read book A Calendar of Wisdom written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom—author Thomas Keneally calls this book “transcendent, and that we are grateful he lived long enough to endow us with his grand inheritance.” This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in pre-revolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.