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'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.' This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are

Самим головним правилом при навчанні читання є "Не нашкодь"! Переучувати завжди важче, а прищепити любов до читання, коли у дитини склалося стійке відраза до читання через надмірні навантаження, практично неможливо. Тому при навчанні читання "Краще менше, та краще". Якщо ви вже вивчили букви і

Leo Tolstoy's grand masterpiece--a timeless saga of family, love, and loss in Russia surrounding the War of 1812. "The greatest of all novelists...what else can we call the author of War and Peace?" asked Virginia Woolf rhetorically--and literary luminaries the world over have agreed with her.

Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love--one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Upon it's publication, Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and happiness weighed against the rigid demands of society. Its heroine, the sensual,

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...lust and affection...vanity and love--one by one, in this

'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive....' Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, inspired by Tolstoy's years as a soldier living amid the Cossack people. A new series of twenty distinctive,

This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror