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Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

• Modern-reader adaptation in clear, accessible language • Preserves the epic plot, characters, and moral force • Clean chapter flow for long-form reading and study This Adapted for Modern Readers edition makes a vast Russian epic easier to enter without losing the sweep of its story. The language is clearer and more direct, while the central conflicts, relationships, social satire, battlefield scenes, and searching moral questions remain intact. Set against the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Russia, the novel follows Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha ...

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

The brilliance of this story is in how a normal bureaucrat, a judge in this case, has a small accident that winds up gradually taking his life. As he deals with this incident, with hope at first and then despair, he comes to terms with his family, his life, and the mediocrities that we all suffer with, except for the exceptional few. This story rings a particularly poignant note for those in early middle age facing the next part of their lives. This story is considered Tolstoy's best.

Boyhood (1854) is the second volume in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, continuing the story that began with Childhood and would conclude with Youth. Published two years after its predecessor, this novella follows Nikolai Irtenev as he transitions from the innocence of childhood into the more complex and often turbulent world of adolescence. Set primarily in Moscow, where fourteen-year-old Nikolai has moved to continue his education, Boyhood explores the psychological and emotional upheaval of the teenage years. Tolstoy masterfully captures the awkwardness, self-consciousness, and ...

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. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

Martin is an old cobbler with a good trade, but he has had a hard life. His soul is now embittered against God. When he hears a mysterious voice calling him in the middle of the night, his soul seems to lighten and awaken to answer the call.

A man confesses to a murder on a night train — and argues, with terrifying conviction, that he was right to commit it. The Kreutzer Sonata is Tolstoy's most scandalous work: banned by Russian censors on first publication in 1889, condemned from pulpits, and still, more than a century later, one of the most unsettling accounts of jealousy, marriage, and sexual disgust ever written. Pozdnyshev, acquitted of killing his wife, tells a stranger the entire story in a single unbroken night — and Tolstoy never quite tells us how far to trust him. This edition presents the complete novella in ...

Leo Tolstoy is quite simply one of the greatest writers to ever set pen to paper. Immortalized by such epic novels as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's genius was also readily apparent in his short fiction. The Death of Ivan Ilych follows the career of the unremarkable title character, who does not question his desire to live an "easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous" life, until he is lying on his death bed.

This audiobook, read by three Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy's greatest novels. Translations by Constance Garnett and Aylmer & Louise Maude. This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy is a philosophical treatise first published in Germany in 1894 after being banned in his home country of Russia. The work is the culmination of 30 years of Tolstoy's thinking, and sets out rules for a new organization of society, based on an interpretation of Christianity which focuses on universal love. In a bold and original way, Tolstoy shows his audiences why violence of any type - even that sanctioned by the state or the church - must be rejected.

Family Happiness stands as one of Leo Tolstoy's most intimate and psychologically penetrating early works, written in 1859 when the author was just thirty-one years old. This slender novella, composed nearly a decade before the epic scope of War and Peace, reveals Tolstoy's already masterful ability to dissect the complexities of human relationships with surgical precision and profound empathy. The story unfolds through the voice of Masha, a seventeen-year-old girl who falls in love with Sergey Mikhaylych, her late father's friend and her family's guardian. What begins as a tale of ...

In My Religion, Leo Tolstoy accuses the church of hiding the true meaning of Jesus, which is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount and the call to resist evil. For Tolstoy, it is this command that has been most damaged by ecclesiastical interpretation. Tolstoy had not always been possessed of the religious ideas set forth in My Religion. For 35 years of his life, he was, in the proper acceptation of the word, a nihilist - not a revolutionary socialist but a man who believed in nothing.

Leo Tolstoy serialized Anna Karenina between 1873-1877, publishing it as a book in 1878. After War and Peace's historical epic, this novel turns inward: more compressed (though still over 800 pages), focused on private lives, consumed with moral and spiritual questions. The famous opening—"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"—announces domestic focus while immediately raising questions the novel will complicate. The structure interweaves two narratives. Anna Karenina, married to a high-ranking official, begins an affair with Count Vronsky—a ...

Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection, published in 1899, stands as the great Russian author's final completed novel and perhaps his most explicitly moral work. Written during the twilight of his literary career, this powerful narrative represents the culmination of Tolstoy's spiritual and philosophical evolution, embodying the Christian anarchist beliefs that had come to define his later years. Unlike the sweeping historical epics War and Peace and Anna Karenina that established his reputation, Resurrection serves as both a gripping story of personal redemption and a searing indictment of Russian ...

Tolstoy's autobiographical essay is a dissection of his soul, a study of his life's movement away from the religious certainties of youth, and a vital piece of reading which contextualizes the great works he is best known for. Marking the point at which his life moved from the worldly to the spiritual, Tolstoy's philosophical reassessment of the Orthodox faith is a work that holds vital spiritual and intellectual importance to this very day.

The greatest novel ever written — in the only English translation authorized by Tolstoy himself. Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in 1863, when he was thirty-five years old, recently married, and living on his estate at Yasnaya Polyana. He finished it six years later. In between, he read everything about Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, interviewed survivors, rewrote the opening section eight times, and produced a book that contains within it a novel, a historical essay, a philosophical treatise, and a love story — sometimes simultaneously, sometimes in open contradiction with ...

Tolstoy’s final work—a gripping novella about the struggle between the Muslim Chechens and their inept occupiers—is a powerful moral fable for our time. Inspired by a historical figure Tolstoy heard about while serving in the Caucasus, this story brings to life the famed warrior Hadji...