When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks...

The touching picture of Anna Aarkadyevna Karenina's slow disintegration has fascinated readers for well over a century....

Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions...

Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband, and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy’s reason for writing about him.

Tolstoy’s hero, Olenin, a young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life, finds himself caught up and charmed by the wild beauty of the Caucasus and the simplicity of its people.

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature....

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpice of 19th-century fiction. Its conclusion, which triumphantly...

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy shows how an unreflective man confronts the moment of truth when he comes face to face with his own mortality.

Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.

Tolstoy, Flaubert, Pushkin, Daudet, and many more of the greatest French and Russian authors...

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder....

“The Kreutzer Sonata” is a macabre story of domestic strife ending in murder, a penetrating study of jealousy, and a criticism of the way in which society educates the young about sex.

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a "religious awakening."

A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town.

Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces.

At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption.

Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories.

Celebrate the joy of the season with this collection of Christmas classics.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars...

Leo Tolstoy's sweeping epic describes Russia between 1805 and 1820, centering on the 1812 invasion of...

War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation features a star cast including Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Emily Mortimer, and Nicola Pagett, and over two hours of specially composed music.

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.

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.