Leo Tolstoy

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....

Twelve dramatisations of the best love stories ever written, performed by star casts. Treat yourself to this stunning collection of classic stories of love, loss, obstacles overcome and desperate attraction.

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....

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

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

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.

Tolstoy based Resurrection, the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads to her ruin....

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....

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

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....

This is Leo Tolstoy's integration of the four biblical gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus which was inspired by his meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible....

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia....

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

《战争与和平》是俄国作家托尔斯泰的代表作品。整部作品构思宏伟、气势奔腾，有力地展示出了俄罗斯历史上最壮丽的一页…… 戰爭與和平》是俄國作家托爾斯泰的代表作品。整部作品構思宏偉、氣勢奔騰，有力地展示出了俄羅斯歷史上最壯麗的一頁……

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

Hadji Murat is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy which was published posthumously in 1912. It tells the story of Hadji Murat, a separatist guerrilla in the Caucasus who falls out with his own commander and eventually sides with the Russians in the hope of saving his family....

At this time I began to write, from vanity, greed, and pride. In my writings I did exactly as in life. In order to possess the glory and the wealth for whose sake I wrote, it was necessary to conceal the good, and to display the bad. And so I did....

The brilliance of the story is how a normal bureaucrat, a judge in this case, has a small accident that winds up gradually taking his life....