Graf Leo Tolstoy audiobooks
Anna Karenina
by Graf Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina is a novel by Russian author Graf Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as pinnacle of realistic fiction. This novel portrays the adulteries in the then aristocratic Russian society through lead character Anna who is married unhappily to a Government employee Karenin...
War and Peace
by Graf Leo TolstoyWar and Peace written by Graf Leo Tolstoy tells the story of five aristocratic families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins and the Drubetskoys—and the entanglements of their personal lives with the then contemporary history of 1805 to 1813, principally Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812...
Childhood
by Graf Leo TolstoyChildhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, ear..
Boyhood
by Graf Leo TolstoyBoyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854. Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won imm..
What I Believe
by Graf Leo TolstoyWhat I Believe is Leo Tolstoy’s follow-up to A Confession in which he describes his profound existential crisis. In A Confession Tolstoy describes how, at age 50, when he was at the height of his worldly success, he became so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide. In desperation he turned to the Orthodox church of his childhood and discovered ..
Bethink Yourselves!
by Graf Leo Tolstoy"Bethink Yourselves" by Leo Tolstoy is a Tolstoy on war classic work that laments...Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men...
Father Sergius
by Graf Leo TolstoyFather Sergiusis a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has ..
Gospel In Brief
by Graf Leo TolstoyThe 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 account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian O..