Leo Tolstoy
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The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 105Year: 1889During a train journey, passengers engaged in a debate about marriage and love are interrupted by a gentleman named Pozdnyshev, who shares a shocking story: he murdered his wife. His narrative is a frantic monologue about the degradation of a marriage founded on sexual attraction rather than spiritual unity. Pozdnyshev details his “dissolute” youth, the […]
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The Sevastopol Sketches by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 190Year: 1856This cycle consists of three essays written by Tolstoy as a participant in the defense of Sevastopol. The work is one of the first examples of “trench truth” in Russian literature, showing war without romanticization. “Sevastopol in December” takes the reader directly to the hospital, where the unpretentious heroism and calmness of simple Russian soldiers […]
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 1024Year: 1869At the heart of the story is Natasha Rostova, young, full of life, and utterly captivating. Her heart becomes the nucleus of a dramatic triangle, connecting two contrasting personalities: the idealist Pierre Bezukhov and the proud, ambitious Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. From their very first meeting, Pierre is secretly and devotedly in love with Natasha, but […]
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What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 240Year: 1898This famous treatise is the result of fifteen years of Tolstoy’s reflections, in which he completely revised the criteria for evaluating art, rejecting the concepts of Beauty and Pleasure as false and elitist. Tolstoy asserts: true art is not pleasure, but a means of communication and union among men. Its main sign is infection: if […]
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