TOLSTOI, León

War and Peace

Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he...

The Landlord's Morning

A story that weaves together passages centered on Nejliúdov. A young rural gentleman drops out of college to seek to improve the lives of the peasants in his village. He tells his aunt that he is doing it...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Ivan Ilich is a civil servant in the tsarist administration whose main aspiration, like that of his colleagues, is to climb the social ladder to maintain his welfare and remain part of the aristocracy....

Albert and Lucerne

The book brings together two short writings by Lev Tolstoy centered on music, very dear to the author, and written at the same time: 1857 and 1858. The topic that unites them is music. It has an exceptional...

Ivan the Fool

All the devil's efforts to corrupt Ivan, to provoke his greed and ambition with money and other promises are in vain. Ivan ruins again and again the tricks that the devil uses to get him on his own side. In...

Two Hussars

In this brief work Tolstoy describes the loss of exemplarity by the Russian military aristocracy in the first half of the 19th century, making use of the life of two hussars, father and son. Count Turbin is...

Los cosacos // Kosaken // The Cossacks

Odenin, a Russian aristocrat who is currently bankrupt, decides to go to war on the front where the Cossacks are fighting Chechenians. It describes the typical behaviors of these people, as well as the...