Penguin Anna Karenina Толстой Лев Николаевич

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics • Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself • This acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN/ Book of the Month Club Translation Prize in 2001

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies • Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in

В романе «Анна Каренина» отразилась со всеми подробностями российская действительность 1870-х годов. Текст вобрал в себя не только приметы времени и характеры персонажей, созданные Л. Н. Толстым на основе многих и многих прототипов, - писатель внес в роман очень много автобиографического, пережитого им самим. Работая над романом, Толстой не вел дневников. «Я все написал в „Анне Карениной“, - говорил он, - и ничего не осталось» • Книга на английском языке • Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe • Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are

A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy • Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colour. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity

Великий гуманист Лев Николаевич Толстой (1828—1910) видел свою писательскую задачу в исследовании человеческой природы, в желании постичь сокровенные законы сознания, которым должна двигать жажда нравственного совершенствования. Своеобразие прозы Л.Н. Толстого определено непосредственной чистотой его этического чувства и характером его таланта, подвергающего литературных героев особой форме психологического анализа — "диалектике души". Именно эти свойства, обогащаясь и видоизменяясь, неизменно присутствуют в его творчестве и определяют природу большинства его произведений. В настоящее издание вошли избранные произведения Л.Н. Толстого, среди которых такие признанные шедевры, как повесть "смерть Ивана Ильича", рассказы "Холстомер", "Хозяин и работник", "После бала" и другие

Просветитель, публицист, педагог, философ — Лев Николаевич Толстой посвятил всю свою жизнь поиску нравственного идеала. Сам он однажды сказал: «Чтобы жить честно, надо рваться, путаться, ошибаться, начинать и бросать… и вечно бороться и лишаться. А спокойствие — душевная подлость». Труд «О жизни» Толстой считал одним из главнейших своих сочинений: в нем сконцентрировались все те его взгляды и убеждения, путь к которым был столь мучителен и долог. Его душевные метания сменились уверенностью в правильности выбора

«Много ли человеку земли нужно?» — один из назидательных народных рассказов Л. Н. Толстого, написанный в начале 1886 года • В этом издании пара коротких рассказов о жадности, благотворительности, жизни и смерти от одного из самых влиятельных российских писателей и мыслителей - Льва Николаевича Толстого • Книга на английском языке • A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe

'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive...' Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, inspired by Tolstoy's years as a soldier living amid the Cossack people. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo Tolstoy believed that he had encountered death itself. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Anthony Briggs, David McDuff and Ronald Wilks • These seven compelling stories explore, in very different ways, Tolstoy's preoccupation with mortality. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is a devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? In 'Polikushka', a light-fingered drunk's chance to prove himself has tragic repercussions, while 'Three Deaths' depicts the last moments of an aristocrat, a peasant and a tree, and 'The Forged Coupon' shows a seemingly minor offence that leads inexorably to ever more horrific crimes

Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics • Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society