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Anna Karenina: One of the Greatest Love Stories in World Literature
A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India its Cause and Cure
Childhood: Volume One of the Autobiographical Trilogy
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Leo Tolstoy Collection Series

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The story is about young wife and her much older husband that come to realize they want different things out of life. There are ideals of happiness are not the same. The tone of the book is set but the opening line. “We were in mourning for our mother, who had died the preceding autumn, and we had spent all the winter alone in the country--Macha, Sonia and I.”
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Release dateJun 30, 2019
Anna Karenina: One of the Greatest Love Stories in World Literature
A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India its Cause and Cure
Childhood: Volume One of the Autobiographical Trilogy

Titles in the series (6)

  • Childhood: Volume One of the Autobiographical Trilogy

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    Childhood: Volume One of the Autobiographical Trilogy
    Childhood: Volume One of the Autobiographical Trilogy

    Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three 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. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator.

  • Anna Karenina: One of the Greatest Love Stories in World Literature

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    Anna Karenina: One of the Greatest Love Stories in World Literature
    Anna Karenina: One of the Greatest Love Stories in World Literature

    First published in book form in 1878. Many authors consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. Anna Karenina is the tragic story of Countess Anna Karenina, a married noblewoman and socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others.

  • A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India its Cause and Cure

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    A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India its Cause and Cure
    A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India its Cause and Cure

    "A Letter to a Hindu" (also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908. The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the famous Russian author and thinker, for India's independence from British colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. The letter caused the young Mohandas Gandhi to write to the world-famous Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Mohandas Gandhi was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his lifelong activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati.

  • Boyhood: autobiographical book

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    Boyhood: autobiographical book
    Boyhood: autobiographical book

    It is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published during the 1850s. 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.

  • Youth: The Third of the Trilogy Books

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    Youth: The Third of the Trilogy Books
    Youth: The Third of the Trilogy Books

    Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner’s son as he grows up and becomes aware of the world and his place in it, these three short novels were only loosely inspired by Tolstoy’s own memories. In old age he condemned the work as “an awkward mixture of fact and fiction,” but the imaginative powers that enabled him to capture so vividly the universal emotions and sensations of childhood have enthralled generations of readers. We are blessed to have, alongside the mature writer of Anna Karenina and War and Peace and the revolutionary mystic of the later years, the young Tolstoy who wrote these elegiac tales. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive feelings, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor.

  • Katia: From Russian Author

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    Katia: From Russian Author
    Katia: From Russian Author

    The story is about young wife and her much older husband that come to realize they want different things out of life. There are ideals of happiness are not the same. The tone of the book is set but the opening line. “We were in mourning for our mother, who had died the preceding autumn, and we had spent all the winter alone in the country--Macha, Sonia and I.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and other classics of Russian literature.

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