Leo Tolstoy Audio

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.

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.

Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia.

Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth.

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.

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....