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This is the third book in the Childhood, Boyhood, Youth trilogy. Childhood was the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released in November 1852. It was the first in a series of three novels and was followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just 23 years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Boyhood is the second book in the Childhood, Boyhood, Youth trilogy. Childhood was the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released in November 1852. It was the first in a series of three novels and was followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just 23 years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

The publication contains parables for adults and children of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

The book contains instructive stories - a collection of fine stories and parables on the theme of morality, the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

The book contains Tolstoy's pedagogical article "Linen-Measurer".

"Boyhood" - the second part of the famous trilogy of Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. In his work the author uses the elements of autobiography, which is closely intertwined with the moral and social problems of the time.

This book contains an autobiographical story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), "Landowner's Morning".

This audiobook contains the famous story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), which brilliantly shows how a single crime - counterfeiting currency notes (coupon) - leads to a whole series of bloody crimes.

The book contains the story of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), "Master and Man".

The book contains a cycle of stories for children about the dogs Milton and Bulka, and the legend of the elder Fyodor Kuzmich, who was buried in place of the Emperor Alexander I.

This book contains the stories of "Korney Vasiliev", "Invasion", and "Power of Childhood", all by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

The book contains the famous story of love, "The Kreutzer Sonata", of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

This audiobook contains the story "Snowstorm", by the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). One of Tolstoy's most well-received works of realism, this prose-poem-like short story looks at the behaviors of people in extreme situations and their belief in their abilities to survive.

This novel is believed to be partially based on Tolstoy's own experiences. It is the story of a Russian soldier, Dmitri, and his time spent in the Caucasus. He befriends an old Cossack and meets a Cossack girl, Maryanka, and falls in love. As the story progresses, he learns more about himself and comes to realize how wrong and immoral his former life in Russian High Society was.

This audiobook contains two of Tolstoy's most celebrated stories. "The Diary of a Madman" and "The Devil" are partially autobiographical. Both involve journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that are also themes of Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

Una de las mas impresionantes caracteristicas de la obra de Tolstoy es su capacidad para hacer un profundo estudio psicologico de sus personajes. En Ana Karenina, que con Guerra y paz conforma el duo de monumentos que el gran escritor ruso lego a la literatura universal, Tolstoy no usa el horizonte epico sino situaciones domesticas para crear una novela que es casi un poema.

La novela se desarrolla en la Rusia de los Zares, donde Ana Karenina, una hermosa mujer casada con un poderoso ministro del gobierno ruso, se enamora de un apuesto y rico oficial del ejército, el Conde Vronsky. Buscando la felicidad y desafiando las reglas y normas de la sociedad rusa, Ana Karenina, abandona su esposo e hijo para vivir con su amante, con devastadores resultados.

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature. Against that primitive background, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is that of a young man who wants to love and wants to fit into society. The other is that of the difficulty of a primitive society in accepting the domination of a higher culture. This is a brilliant exploration of the themes of individuality and social identity.