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“You know how, very occasionally in your life, there’s a ‘before and after’ reading experience? Well, reading War and Peace with Tolstoy Together has been that for me—a milestone not just in reading but in living.”—Michael LanganFrom the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about the art of reading. In Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, Yiyun Li invites you to travel with her through Tolstoy’s novel—and with fellow readers around the world who joined her for an online book club and an epic journey during a pandemic year.“I’ve found that the more uncertain life is,” Yiyun Li writes, “the more solidity and structure War and Peace provides.” Tolstoy Together expands the epic novel into a rich conversation about literature and ways of reading, with contributions from Garth Greenwell, Elliott Holt, Carl Phillips, Tom Drury, Sara Majka, Alexandra Schwartz, and hundreds of fellow readers.Along with Yiyun Li’s daily reading journal and a communal journal with readers’ reflections—with commentary on craft and technique, historical context, and character studies, Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace includes a schedule and framework, providing a daily motivating companion for Tolstoy’s novel and a reading practice for future books.

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024''Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration'' SIGRID NUNEZ''One of our finest living authors'' NEW YORK TIMES''Bruising, beautiful'' GUARDIANA dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and grand mysterious forces – death, violence, estrangement – come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey, a mound of wounded ants, a photograph kept hidden for many years, until it must be seen.Li is a breathtakingly original writer, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental, metaphysical and blunt, funny and horrifying, omniscient and yet acutely aware of just how much we cannot know. Beloved for her novels and memoirs, she returns here to her earliest form, gathering short stories and a remarkable novella never before published in the UK. Taken together, the stories in Wednesday''s Child articulate the true cost of living with all Li’s trademark unnerving beauty and searing wisdom.‘Quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching … Li explores the brittle fractures within the human heart … A shimmering meditation’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Strands of melancholy are braided through Li’s tender, thoughtful stories’ DAILY MAIL‘Against the backdrop of threat, Li’s characters meditate coolly on meaning and mortality’ OBSERVER

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''Unforgettable'' SUNDAY TIMES''Courageous'' OBSERVER''One of the most important books to be published in years'' SARA COLLINS''There are few writers with Li’s power'' DOUGLAS STUARTThe best book I have read this year’ DAVID NICHOLLS''I will return to it for the rest of my life'' CHARLOTTE WOODA remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.''There is no good way to say this,'' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.''There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.''There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, ''a single point in a timeline''. Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving. As Li writes, ''The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.'' Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.As seen in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, LA Times, TIME, and the Paris Review. ''To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it'' OBSERVER''A story of loss that is unlike any other book I''ve read … an unforgettable monument to endurance'' SUNDAY TIMES''Resolutely unsentimental, and yet it might wind you with its emotional force'' GUARDIAN''A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away'' NEW YORK TIMES''An extraordinary book’ SARAH MOSS''A manifesto of living, not dying, and of how we endure the most unimaginable things'' SINÉAD GLEESON, in THE WEEK''A profound look at how a parent continues to live in a world without her children’TIME‘A book unlike any I''ve read, that brims with rare clarity and intelligence, with love and care. It will stay with me for a long time’ CECILE PIN

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Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from one of the finest storytellers we have'This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.' Meg WolitzerLilia Liska is 81. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.Increasingly obsessed by this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Roland's charming but arrogant voice with an incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of 27.Must I Go is an unconventional epistolary novel, a gleefully one-way correspondence between the very-much-alive Lilia and the long-departed Roland. Though mortality is ever-present, this is ultimately a novel about life, in all its messy glory. Life lived, for the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With exquisite subtlety and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.

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The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious ‘accident’ in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by this incident, and by time and distance. Boyang stayed in China, while Moran and Ruyu emigrated to the United States. All three remain haunted by what really happened.A breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and the virtues of loyalty. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound philosophical insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future.

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''Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read'' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over two years while the author battled depression, Dear Friend is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Interweaving personal memoir with a wide-ranging celebration of writers and books, this is a journey of recovery through literature.From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Kierkegaard and Larkin, Yiyun Li traces the themes of time and transformation, presence and absence. Drawing on personal experiences from her difficult childhood in China, she constructs a beautiful, interior exploration of selfhood and what is required to choose life.

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‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times''Sly, profound … Electrifying'' Observer‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregorA propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons EndFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail‘Haunting and strange … Li has made her style her own’ Tessa Hadley, Guardian‘A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout’ Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist

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I don''t understand it; I don''t in the least understand why men can''t live without wars. How is it that we women don''t want anything of the kind, don''t need it?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. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy''s portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them. In this definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy''s genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader. In addition this edition includes a new introduction by Amy Mandelker, revised and expanded notes, lists of fictional and historical characters, a chronology of historical events, five maps, and Tolstoy''s essay ''Some Words about War and Peace''.

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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon''s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy''s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy''s philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy''s approval.

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''Although he feared death, he could not stop. ''If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they''d call me an idiot!''A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia''s most influential writers and thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy''s works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.

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''One of the greatest love stories in world literature'' Vladimir NabokovThe heroine of Tolstoy''s epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. This award-winning translation has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy''s masterpiece.Translated by RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY with a Preface by JOHN BAYLEY

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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin''s estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett''s translation conveys Tolstoy''s precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.

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''no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied''As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and ''The Forged Coupon'', a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In ''Master and Workman'' Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. ''The Death of Ivan Ilyich'' is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer.In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy''s moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky’s Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. ‘It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written,’ writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiography. ‘It makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy and his character as if one were sitting in the same room – his greatness and his littleness, his entrancing and infuriating complexity, his titanic and poetic personality, his superb humour.’ In 1934, the book was expanded to include Gorky’s memoirs of two other great Russian literary figures, Anton Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. Almost a hundred years later, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.

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The well-known Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote a book titled "What Is Art?" in which he explores the importance and aim of art. Tolstoy argues that as the ultimate definition of art is the capacity to convey feelings and ideas from one person to another, it is a fundamental component of social interaction and human communication. Tolstoy stresses the necessity of honesty, clarity, and moral principles in art throughout the whole book. He contends that art must be informed by real-world experiences and should aim to convey universal truths about the human condition. In conclusion, "What Is Art?" is a profound and provocative examination of the nature and function of art that has been extensively read and discussed by academics and art fans all over the globe.

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The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy''s artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, ''The Two Hussars'' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy''s belief that art must serve a moral purpose, ''What Men Live By'' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and ''Two Old Men'' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving ''Master and Man'', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.

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Leo Tolstoy's classic novel of love and self-destruction is spectacularly presented in this ornate hardback gift edition with gold cover foiling and printed page edges.It is no surprise that Leo Tolstoy's peers should have hailed this Russian literary masterpiece as one of the best novels ever written. Even in the 21st century, it has regularly been voted as one of the top 100 books in literature.First published in serial form between 1873 and 1877, it tells the tragic love story of the aristocrat of the title and her lover Count Vronsky. As they pursue their relationship, Russian society shuns Anna, making her increasingly paranoid and distressed, as her marriage to Count Karenin falls apart and he threatens to take her son, Seryozha, away from her if she continues her affair.Multi-stranded, Tolstoy's commanding work covers many themes, including the Russian feudal system, social hypocrisy, the family and, above all, passion.Using the classic translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude, this striking gift edition creates a wonderful way to enjoy this masterwork of Russian literature.

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''If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.'' Isaac BabelTolstoy''s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy''s portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them.In this revised and updated version of the definitive and highly acclaimed Maude translation, Tolstoy''s genius and the power of his prose are made newly available to the contemporary reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook.Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In The Kreutzer Sonata he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in The Devil a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.This volume also includes an Introduction and Notes written specially for this Wordsworth edition by Dr Tim Cook, formely lecturer in literature at the Universities of Kingston and Ulster. Previous work contributed by Dr Cook for Wordsworth includes an introduction and notes to Charles Dickens'' Nicholas Nickleby.

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Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics.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. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.This acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN/ Book of the Month Club Translation Prize in 2001. Their translation is accompanied in this edition by an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley'The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must' - Lisa Appignanesi, Independent, Books of the Year

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A beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeurAt a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.

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Immerse yourself in the brilliant storytelling of Leo Tolstoy with "The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy." This captivating collection showcases the literary genius of one of the greatest Russian authors, featuring tales of love, morality, and the human condition that will leave you spellbound.•

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''The greatest love story I''ve ever read'' Andrew Davies Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall. In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it.

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Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in.Acclaimed by critics and readers alike, Anna Karenina presents a poignant blend of realism and lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time.

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During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and iconoclastic, this powerfully influential work both criticizes the elitist nature of art in nineteenth-century Western society, and rejects the idea that its sole purpose should be the creation of beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire and Wagner are all vigorously condemned, as Tolstoy explores what he believes to be the spiritual role of the artist - arguing that true art must work with religion and science as a force for the advancement of mankind.

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In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world''s media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history. Born into a privileged aristocratic family, he seemed set to join the ranks of degenerate Russian noblemen, but fighting in the Crimean war alongside rank and file soldiers opened his eyes to Russia''s social problems and he threw himself into teaching the peasantry to read and write. After his marriage he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both regarded as two of the greatest novels in world literature.Rosamund Bartlett''s exceptional biography of this brilliant, maddening and contrary man draws on key Russian sources, including the many fascinating new materials which have been published about Tolstoy and his legacy since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him. Even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing.

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Immerse yourself in the brilliance of Leo Tolstoy's storytelling with “The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy.” This remarkable collection brings together his finest works, showcasing his profound understanding of human nature and delivering captivating narratives that will leave you mesmerized.•

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Tolstoy's masterpiece tells the story of a woman who seems to have everything until her affair with the impetuous officer Count Vronsky scandalises society.

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Tolstoy's epic novel focuses on the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valour.

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Describing Tolstoy''s crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for ''a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth''. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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''One of the greatest love stories in world literature'' Vladimir NabokovAnna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest, Tolstoy creates a rich and complex masterpiece that has captured the imagination of readers for decades.''I''ve read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story'' Philippa GregoryTRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDEVINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

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Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent.Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an abounding joy in life''s many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion of comic relief.

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A witty and sensual stage adaptation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2025.

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Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles, at the last count.No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It''s about the schools, the music, the people - but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. It''s about a family who didn''t see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who taught Mark the power of stories. It''s also a story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades.

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Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him – and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.Tolstoy knew as he was writing this, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising portrayal of the Russians’ faults and the nature of the rebels’ struggle. In the process, he shows a mastery of style and an understanding of Chechnya that still carries great resonance today.

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This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon. The novel is an affirmation of life itself, focusing on the lives of individuals and the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity.

Objev podobné jako War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone.Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession.

Objev podobné jako The Death of Ivan Ilyich: New Translation - Leo Tolstoy

''If you''ve never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don''t read War and Peace, you live it'' The TimesTolstoy''s enthralling epic depicts Russia''s war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchanting Natasha Rostov.''It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book, this would be it'' Andrew MarrVINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

Objev podobné jako War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series) - Leo Tolstoy

"In this silly retelling of the classic Russian tale, The Gigantic Turnip encourages friendship and working together to achieve success" – New York Botanical Garden Find out what happens when the old woman, the old man, and all twenty-one animals on the farm try to harvest a rather large root vegetable. This well-loved Russian tale uses humor, counting and repetition to appeal to beginner readers.

Objev podobné jako The Gigantic Turnip - Aleksei Tolstoy

LP vinyl - V reedici vychází 12„ maxi singl s asi největším hitem kapely - skladbou ”All Together Now". V reedici vychází 12„ maxi singl s asi největším hitem kapely - skladbou ”All Together Now". The Farm byli liverpoolská kapela, která kombinovala nezávislý kytarový indie-rock s prvky taneční hudby. Rok reedice : 2022 Seznam stop LP (12 #039; #039; Maxi Single) A1 All Together Now / A2 All Together Now (feat. The S.F.X. Boys #039; Choir, Liverpool) (The Choral Mix) / B1 All Together Now (Farley and Heller Remix) / B2 All Together Now (Rocky and Diesel Mix)

Objev podobné jako Farm: All Together Now (12'' Maxi Single) - LP (4050538811162)

In Together, social justice kids book pioneer Innosanto Nagara teams up with poet and activist Mona Damluji for a stunningly tender and pitch-perfect visual feast that juxtaposes individual action with the power of people acting together. Each of the ten free-verse couplets in the poem is spread across four pages of imagery, to make a unique and different kind of board book for young kids to discover with their families. The first illustrated book in which Nagara applies his extraordinary visual imagination to words not his own, Together is simplicity itself a poem about the transformational change that happens when people stop acting alone and start doing things together. Together is Nagara''s third board book, following the immensely popular social justice board books A is for Activist and Counting on Community.

Objev podobné jako Together - Mona Damluji

From beloved creator Joyce Wan comes a touching ode to all the ways we are so much better when we come together!Because things are simply better together.With an important and timely message about the power of community and getting along, this sparkly board book truly shows the importance of being #strongertogether. From schools of fish in the sea to stars that make up our galaxy, creator Joyce Wan takes readers on a lyrical and emotional journey that compares groups of things that come together to a child and their respective families and friends. It''s an incomparable board book story that works perfectly as a companion and follow-up to Joyce Wan''s We Belong Together.A stunning celebration of the power and strength in working and being together!

Objev podobné jako We Are Better Together

Artemide Come Together - 2700K - HliníkSvítidlo Artemide Come Together, navržené uznávanou designérkou Carlottou de Bevilacqua, představuje harmonii designu a technologie. Toto přenosné svítidlo je navrženo tak, aby poskytovalo jemné a příjemné osvětlení, které se dokonale hodí do jakéhokoliv moderního interiéru.Technické specifikace Výška: 269 mm Délka: 100 mm Světelný tok: 272 lm Barva světla: 2700K Index podání barev (Ra): 80 Příkon sv. zdroje: 2,4W Celkový příkon: 2,4W Patice: LED Ochrana IP: IP20 Materiál: Methakrylát / Hliník Barva: Hliník Včetně světelného zdroje: AnoDesign a materiályKolekce Come Together je synonymem pro inovaci a estetiku. Svítidlo je vyrobeno z kvalitního methakrylátu a hliníku, což zajišťuje jeho lehkost a odolnost. Jeho elegantní tvar a jemné linie přinášejí do prostoru nejen světlo, ale i styl.Ideální pro moderní interiéryArtemide Come Together je ideální volbou pro ty, kteří hledají spojení funkčnosti a designu. Díky svému elegantnímu provedení a sofistikovanému světlu o teplotě 2700K vytváří tento kousek příjemnou atmosféru v každém prostředí.

Objev podobné jako Artemide Come together - 2700K - hliník 0165W20A

Chcete naučit své děti hrát si spolu v harmonii? Together in Tune Guitar™ je dřevěná hudební hračka, která jim umožňuje džemovat samostatně nebo spolu se sourozenci a přáteli. Bezdrátově se připojuje k ostatním nástrojům Together in Tune™ v dosahu a automaticky se harmonizuje, čímž vytváří nádhernou hudbu, kterou si máma a táta užijí stejně jako jejich kojenci a batolata. Bezpečné bezdrátové spojení mezi přístroji funguje jako vysílačka přes rádiové signály. Touch™ spojuje trvanlivost a hodnotu klasické dřevěné hračky s nejnovější technologií hudebních hraček současnosti. Dokonce i nejjemnější poklepání na celou oktávu barevných malovaných pražců vydává skutečné kytarové zvuky; režim režim kapely) a 10 populárních melodií, dává dítěti svobodu vytvářet si vlastní beaty, vrstvit riffy a jednoduché zvuky, rozhýbat se a ovládat své oblíbené písně. Pokud hledáte hudební hračku jako dárek k oslavě miminka nebo na první narozeniny, toto je ta správná. Díky dřevěnému designu bez knoflíků se tato hračka pro batolata mimořádně snadno čistí. Zahrnuje ovládání hlasitosti Vypnout/Nízká/Vy­soká. Vhodné pro batolata a děti od 6 měsíců. Vlastnosti: Podněcuje společné hraní a spolupráci – dítě může džemovat samo nebo spolu s přáteli a sourozenci bezdrátovým připojením k jiným nástrojům Together in Tune™ Connected Magic Touch™ v dosahu. 4 hudební režimy – Režim objevování (přehrávání populárních melodií a vytváření nových rytmů); Režim předvádění (vrstvé riffy); Hravý režim (přidejte jednoduché zvuky); a Režim kapely (džemování s přáteli a rodinou) Oceňovaná technologie Magic Touch™ – Veškerá trvanlivost a památná hodnota klasické dřevěné hračky, povýšené pomocí nejnovějších technologií. Dokonce i nejjemnější poklepání na barevné malované pražce vydává skutečné kytarové zvuky. 10 populárních melodií – dítě si může procvičit a nakonec zvládnout všech 10 písniček. Ovládání hlasitosti Vypnout/Nízká/Vy­soká potěší největší fanoušky dítěte (máma a táta). Bezpečný a snadno čistitelný design – nástroje Together in Tune™ se připojují jednoduše, bezpečně a bezdrátově prostřednictvím rádiových signálů. Dřevěný design bez knoflíků usnadňuje čištění kytary. Vhodné pro děti od 6 měsíců. Jsou zapotřebí 3 x AA baterie (nejsou součástí balení). Rozměry (D x Š x V): 19,05 × 53,09 × 6­,1 cm VAROVÁNÍ: Tato hračka vytváří záblesky, které mohou u citlivých jedinců vyvolat epilepsii. Adresa dodavatele: KIDS2 EUROPE BV 5 Keizersgracht 287, 1016 ED Amsterdam, Netherlands; +31 20 241 0934

Objev podobné jako BABY EINSTEIN Hračka dřevěná hudební kytara Together in Tune Guitar™ Connected Magic Touch™ HAPE 6m+

''You''re in safe hands with Clare - practical, helpful advice and lots of fun meal inspiration for the whole family.'' - JAMIE OLIVER''In a busy hyper stimulating world, pockets of peace and connection are vital but hard to find - especially with those we love. The wonderful Clare Mosley reminds us of the value of the family mealtime not just in terms of food and nutrition, but also in terms of communication and connection. LOVE this book.'' - PROFESSOR TANYA BYRON''A great book with an incredibly important message. Essential for every family balancing time, money and health.'' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKENIt''s not just what we eat but how we eat that shapes our families.Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, her husband Dr Michael Mosley and their four children always shared family meals around their kitchen table. However hectic life became, sitting down to eat together was a priority which, Clare believes, helped to hold their busy family together.But sharing food together can do more than strengthen family bonds. Evidence suggests this simple habit can help children do better in school and even improve the physical and mental health of both parents and children. Eating Together includes a step-by-step four-week plan, based on the success of their parentingmatters.co.uk parenting platform, to establish a regular mealtime habit, and table games that can distract fussy eaters and help families move on from food battles.Recipes include:- Crunchy chocolate spread- Air-fryer chicken skewers- Dhal with sweet potato- Turbocharged porridge- Cheddar and almond biscuits- Protein-packed pasta dishesWhether it''s a quick midweek bite or a slow weekend dinner the magic isn''t just in the menu. It''s in the moments. Sitting at the same table means sharing more than food. It means sharing stories, laughter, eye contact and problems. It means building routines, resilience and connection. The effects can be powerful and far-reaching.For parents and grandparents with children of all ages, this book offers advice on store cupboard essentials, guidance on what not to feed your children, tips on how to involve the whole family in the preparation and cooking process, and recipes for all occasions.

Objev podobné jako Eating Together - Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, Professor Professor Stephen Scott

Simon Sinek sparked a movement with his bestsellers START WITH WHY and LEADERS EAT LAST. Now this beautifully illustrated book will inspire more readers to ask for help, help others, and discover their own courage through a charming story about change. Life is a series of choices. Do we go left or right? Jump forward or hold back? Sometimes our choices work out for the better…and sometimes they don’t. But there is one choice, regardless of every other decision, that profoundly affects how we feel about our journey: Do we go alone or do we go together? It is the courageous few who ask for help. It is the giving few willing to help others. We can all find the courage we need and know the joy of service – the minute we learn that together is better. Filled with inspiring quotes, this richly illustrated fable tells a delightful story of three kids who go on a journey to a new playground and take a stand for what they believe. The story is a metaphor for anyone looking to make a change or wondering how to pursue their dreams. And the message is simple: relationships – real, human relationships – really, really matter. The stronger our relationships, the stronger the bonds of trust and cooperation, the more we can accomplish and the more joy and fulfillment we get from our work and personal lives. The three heroes are archetypes who represent us all at various points in our lives. Their main challenge is the same one we face every day: How can we find the things we’re looking for? According to Sinek, if we each do our part to help advance a shared vision, we can build the world we imagine. In addition to the story itself, Sinek shares such profound lessons as: · A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. · Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love. · Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion. · A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him become stars. Together is Better was designed to be given as a gift to someone you want to inspire, or to say thank you to someone who inspires you. It''s completely different from Sinek''s previous work. It may look like a children''s book, but it''s definitely for adults.This book includes a special page featuring the Scent of Optimism.

Objev podobné jako Together Is Better

Kniha - autor Mary Charrington; Paul Shipton; Charlotte Covill, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Série Let’s Explore a Explore Together podporují schopnost žáků chápat dnešní globalizovaný svět a pracují na rozvoji jejich hodnot a postojů. žákům pomáhají lekce Numbers, festivalové lekce a stránky Explore more! jazyk je vyučován zábavnou formou s pomocí různých postav a příběhů Classroom Presentation Tool – obsahuje animované verze příběhů, videa ke kultuře a poslechové aktivity pracovní listy ke kultuře, sebehodnoticí materiály a karty se slovní zásobou ke stažení Explore Together 1 je doplněn o Starter Booklet pro ty, kteří s angličtinou teprve začínají. Explore série je kompletní řada učebnic (1. – 9. ročník), která postupuje v souladu s vývojem žáků, a poskytuje tak odpovídající úroveň obtížnosti a podpory pro každou etapu základního vzdělávání. Vydejte se na cestu od Let’s Explore přes Explore Together až po Project Explore.

Objev podobné jako Explore Together 1: Pracovní sešit (9780194051613)

LP vinyl - Let's Stick Together je třetí album z roku 1976 od Bryana Ferryho. Let's Stick Together je třetí album z roku 1976 od Bryana Ferryho. Rok vydání : 1976 (3.album sólo) Rok reedice : 2021 Seznam stop LP Let #039;s Stick Together / Casanova / Sea Breezes / Shame, Shame, Shame / 2hb / The Price of Love / Chance Meeting / It #039;s Only Love / You Go to My Head / Re-make / Re-model / Heart on My Sleeve

Objev podobné jako Ferry Bryan: Let's Stick Together - LP (7722745)

Hudební CD - Andre Rieu představuje své album Happy Together - nádhernou a emocionální „ódu na radost” oslavující návrat k životu, štěstí a lásce! Pro toto album si Andre osobně vybral své oblíbené písně z celého světa. Andre Rieu představuje své album Happy Together - nádhernou a emocionální „ódu na radost” oslavující návrat k životu, štěstí a lásce! Pro toto album si Andre osobně vybral své oblíbené písně z celého světa. Rok vydání : 2021 Seznam stop CD, DVD Semper Fidelis / You are my Sunshine / Waves of the Danube / Happy Together / Egyptian March / Slavko play for us / El Capitan / Estudiantina / Valencia / Berliner Luft / Wiyathul / Circus Renz / Maastricht, City Of Jolly Singers / Skoda Lasky (Rosamunde) / André Goes Marching On (Medley) / When I #039;m Sixty Four / La Bamba / Can #039;t help falling in love / All my life

Objev podobné jako Rieu André: Happy Together (Deluxe) (2x CD) - CD (5488680)