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Along with historical narrative, hear rare recordings of some of the most iconic people in history, including Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Edward Gladston, Guiglielmo Marconi, Willaim McKinley, Leo Tolstoy, William Booth, Pope Leo XIII, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Dr. Frederick Cook, and William E. Peary.

This book contains parables for adults and children, often in the form of Christian allegories, by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). "Tolstoy's parables are the most artistically beautiful and powerful in their impact since the original ones in the New Testament." (Malcolm Muggeridge)

Regarded by many as the world's greatest novel, this is the classic story of Anna Karenina, "grande dame of Petersburg society", who forsakes everything ¿ her marriage, her son, and her position in society ¿ for the dashing Count Vronsky, with tragic consequences.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This second wide-ranging collection of 19th-century literary masterworks, presented in their entirety, not only entertains, but provides insight into 19th-century mores and the mysteries of human nature.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

The book contains the famous story of love, "The Kreutzer Sonata", of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

V ehtot sbornik rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelya voshli sleduyushchie proizvedeniya: Posle bala, Alesha Gorshok, Assirijskij car' Asarhadon, Kornej Vasil'ev, Fal'shivyj kupon, Yagody.

Two little girls from different houses happened to meet in a lane between two homesteads, where the dirty water, after running through the farmyards, had formed a large puddle. One girl was very small, the other a little bigger. Their mothers had dressed them both in new frocks. The little one wore a blue frock, the other a yellow print, and both had red kerchiefs on their heads. They had just come from church when they met, and first they showed each other their finery, and then they began to play....

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself.

This audiobook contains two of Tolstoy's most celebrated stories. "The Diary of a Madman" and "The Devil" are partially autobiographical. Both involve journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that are also themes of Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence.

This book contains instructive stories - a collection of fine stories and parables on the theme of morality - by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

In this novella, Tolstoy brilliantly shows how a single crime - the counterfeiting of currency (coupons) - leads to a whole series of bloody crimes and death.

A story of a successful farmer, Ilyas, who grew into one of the wealthiest in the area only to lose it all through series of bad accidents. He finds his happiness, however, only after losing all his possessions and achieving peace for himself and his wife. Read in English, unabridged.

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich", first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.

The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior status in society.

"Voskresenie" - poslednij roman L'va Nikolaevicha Tolstogo, napisannyj im v 1889-1899 godah. Roman prakticheski srazu za publikaciej byl perevedyon na osnovnye evropejskie yazyki. Podobnyj uspekh vo mnogom ob'yasnyalsya ostrotoj vybrannoj temy (sud'ba soblaznyonnoj i broshennoj oficerom devushki, chuvstvo viny pered kotoroj vposledstvii stanovitsya povodom izmeneniya zhiznej ih oboih) i kolossal'nym interesom k tvorchestvu Tolstogo, kotoryj ne pechatal romanov posle "Vojny i mira" i "Anny Kareninoj".

This short novel, published after Tolstoy's death, is the last novel the great author wrote. It tells the true story of Hadji Murad (or Hadji Murat, alternatively), an Avar who commanded the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya in their resistance against assimilation into the Russian empire. Tolstoy had first heard of Murad during his travels, and the author became inspired by Murad's refusal to give in to the demands of a corrupt world. Hadji Murad shares many of the same themes found in War and Peace.

In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first dilemma is that of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.

An abridged version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Anna (Bergman) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Peck).

Leo Tolstoy is widely recognized as one of the world's greatest novelists and short story writers and a master of realistic fiction. He is equally known for his complex and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, developed following a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became known for his deep moral thinking and social reforms.