Leo Tolstoy
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in Brief-Leo Tolstoy's riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative. Virtually unknown to English readers until now, Dustin Condren's groundbreaking translation from the Russian opens a precious new world of Tolstoy's masterful literary talent to fans of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the stellar cast of this landmark BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic saga.
'Tolstoy's imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast' The Spectator
One of the greatest novels of all time, War and Peace explores historical, social, ethical and religious issues on a scale never before attempted in fiction, and reflects the panorama
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," a middle-aged judge falls gravely ill and is shinned by his materialistic family; and in "Confession," Tolstoy charts his own religious evolution from his rejection of the Orthodox Church to his embrace of spirituality.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The story follows unconventional love and marriage of a young girl, Masha aged 17, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych , an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere family friendship, Masha's love grows and expands until she can no longer contain it. She reveals it to Sergey Mikhaylych and discovers that he also is deeply in love.
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
An examination of the conflicts within and among nations, this treatise proposes a remedy based on true Christian doctrine: recognition of love as the supreme law of life. Written just before World War I, it articulates Tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to do violence-a philosophy that has inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and countless others. Famed for such popular novels as War and Peace and Anna...
58) Anna Karenina
Author
Publisher
Fictionwise, Inc
Language
English
Description
In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy moved away from the vast historical sweep of War and Peace to tell, with extraordinary understanding, the story of an aristocratic woman who brings ruin on herself. Anna's tragedy is interwoven with the courtship and marriage of Kitty and Levin as well as the lives of many other characters. Rich in incident, powerful in characterization, the novel also expresses Tolstoy's own moral vision.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
60) Anna Karenina
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004, 2000.
Language
English
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
