Childhood, the first novel by Leo Tolstoy, was published under the initials LN in the November 1852 issue of the famous Russian literary magazine The Contemporary. It was the first in a series of three novels, followed by Boyhood and Boyhood. Published when Tolstoy was 23, the book was an instant...

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vronsky takes part in the Serbian War, cannot live without Anna, and wishes to die. Back on his farm with his loving wife and young son, Levine struggles...

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. In book 7, Levine comes to town with Katie in prison and is drawn to the corrupt influence of Moscow society. Steva again urged Karenin to divorce Anna, and Anna,...

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds when Anna rejects a heartless marriage in order to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisy of society....

Anna Karenina opens up about their doomed love The sensual and rebellious Anna and the handsome officer Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds when Anna rejects a heartless marriage in order to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisy of society. (Summary by Mary Anderson) In Book 5 we see the new...

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. In volume 4, Anna's husband contemplates drastic measures to address his wife's apparent infidelity, while Kitty and Levin meet again in Moscow and pick each...

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds when Anna rejects a heartless marriage in order to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisy of society....

In Part 2, when Levin retreats to his country house, Kitty's health deteriorates with regret and heartbreak. Anna and Vronsky continued to pursue each other and became the talk of high society, much to Karenin's chagrin....

Anna Karenina tells the story of the doomed love affair between the sensual and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds when Anna rejects a heartless marriage in order to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisy of society....

Written in 1882, not long after a life-altering spiritual crisis, Leo Tolstoy's A Confession is a brutally candid reflection on the nature of life, morality, and faith. Tolstoy describes his loss of faith in the mainstream Christian church, the futility of wealth and fame, his torment by severe...