Leo Tolstoy

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....

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death....

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more....

In this definitive presentation of Leo Tolstoy’s original masterpiece, listeners are drawn into a world where the glitter of Imperial Russia hides wounds that only love—and its consequences—can reveal.

The Essential Leo Tolstoy Collection gathers the monumental works of a writer whose insight into the human soul, society, faith, and moral responsibility has shaped world literature.

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit....

From sweeping tales of war and philosophy to darkly comic journeys through bureaucracy and haunting visions of dystopia, this collection gathers some of the most profound and provocative works ever written.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more.

In early nineteenth-century Russia, the threat of Napoleon’s invasion looms, and the lives of millions are about to be changed forever....

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature....

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature....

The Gospel in Brief is a 1902 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The work focuses on Jesus's teachings to his followers, presumably those which Tolstoy found most compelling....

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....

The subject of this Tolstoy novella is a high court judge in St. Petersburg. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die....

A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers....

Beautiful, popular, and fortunate, Anna Karenina is an upright wife and mother. But her passionless marriage to a senior statesman leads her into the arms of Count Alexey Vronsky. The dashing cavalry officer stokes in her something exciting and defiant....

The colorful Cossack way of life is made alive and real in this historical novel....

The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous" life, until he is dying....

While Tolstoy was able to sustain complex and moving plots through large novels, his ability as a writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories....