Leo Tolstoy
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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1880A Confession is a short, autobiographical work detailing Leo Tolstoy’s profound midlife spiritual crisis and his search for the ultimate meaning of life. Written between 1879 and 1882, the work marks a radical turning point in the author’s philosophical and religious views. Tolstoy, a celebrated author, describes the despair he felt despite having achieved worldwide […]
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 848Year: 1877Married Anna Karenina is obsessed with Alexei Vronsky. Her forbidden feelings for the Count, despite the condemnation of society, moral standards, and his conscience, are tormenting her. This is a story about love, which can be both a source of happiness and a cause of tragedy. Browse the table of contents, check the quotes, read […]
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 400Year: 1857Tolstoy’s semi-autobiographical trilogy is an intimate, “microscopic” study of the internal life and moral development of the young nobleman Nikolenka Irtenev. The narrative traces the protagonist’s painful and joyous path from innocent childhood to aspiring young adulthood. Act One: Childhood The idyllic life of ten-year-old Nikolenka Irtenev on the family estate. He experiences his first […]
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Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1911For many years, Sergius leads a life of the strictest asceticism, battling the temptations of the flesh, pride, and vanity that he strives to suppress. He manages to avoid a fall when he is visited in his cell by the beautiful society lady Makovkina, who attempts to seduce him on a dare. To escape sin, […]
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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 160Year: 1912The narrative centers on the Avar warrior Hadji Murad, the celebrated deputy (naib) of Imam Shamil. After a conflict with Shamil, and forced to save his family—who have been taken hostage by the Imam—Hadji Murad makes a dangerous decision: he defects to the Russian side. Hadji Murad seeks refuge first in a Chechen village and […]
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 50Year: 1886This parable is a tragic examination of ruinous human greed. The peasant Pahom is obsessed with one idea: if he only had enough land, he wouldn’t fear the Devil himself. The Devil, overhearing this boast, immediately sets out to tempt Pahom. Dissatisfied with his modest holdings, Pahom constantly pursues new, larger, and more fertile territories. […]
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Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 496Year: 1899Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov, a wealthy nobleman, sits on a jury that convicts a prostitute named Katerina Maslova of murder. He is instantly horrified when he recognizes her as the innocent young servant girl he seduced and abandoned years earlier—an act that started her descent into poverty and crime. Overwhelmed by moral guilt and a spiritual […]
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The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 270Year: 1863The 24-year-old Moscow aristocrat Dmitry Olenin is disillusioned with society, having squandered much of his inheritance. In a desperate attempt to start anew and find true meaning, he leaves the capital and joins the army as a cadet, stationed in a remote Cossack village in the Caucasus. Olenin is instantly captivated by the primal simplicity […]
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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 88Year: 1886The story begins with the death of Ivan Ilyich Golovin, a high-ranking magistrate, and his self-absorbed colleagues and family calculating how his demise will benefit their careers and finances. The narrative then immediately flashes back, tracing Ivan Ilyich’s “most simple and ordinary” life, which, in the words of the narrator, was “most terrible.” Ivan Ilyich […]
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The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 110Year: 1911The Devil is a savage and deeply revealing novella by Leo Tolstoy, focusing on the swift moral collapse of a man consumed by forbidden sexual desire. This is a story of a nobleman’s struggle with the animalistic forces he cannot control. Evgeny Irtenev, an aristocratic young landowner, successfully restores his family’s debt-ridden estate and seems […]
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The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 100Year: 1911READ FREE“The Forged Coupon” is a story about how a small act can lead to serious consequences. The protagonist, deciding to use a forged coupon, hoped to deceive the store and gain an advantage, but this act led to a chain of fatal events. The novella’s plot portrays a chain of dishonest and cruel acts committed […]
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 400Year: 1894This key religious and philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy, banned in Russia, became a manifesto of nonviolent resistance and the foundation of his teaching on Christian anarchism. Tolstoy rejects the traditional Church and the State, considering them direct enemies of true Christianity. He asserts that Christ’s teaching is a pure moral guide, the core of […]
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