Leo Tolstoy
1) Resurrection
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Portuguese
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«Ressurreição» é o último dos grandes romances de Tolstoi. Publicado em 1899, conta a história de um príncipe russo, Dimitri Nekludov, e de uma antiga empregada doméstica por ele seduzida.
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Portuguese
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Lançando mão da sua experiência pessoal, de manuais de ginecologia, de conselhos médicos para a higiene feminina e do relato que ouvira das angústias de um homem ante a traição de sua esposa, o autor de «Guerra e Paz» criou uma narrativa cujo enredo dialoga com as escalas vertiginosas do piano e do violino na sonata de Beethoven, e no qual o andamento inexorável da tragédia se soma à lucidez cristalina da linguagem.
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Portuguese
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Publicada em 1859, quando o escritor tinha pouco mais de trinta anos, 'A Felicidade Conjugal' é talvez a primeira obra-prima de Lev Tolstoi e prenuncia um tema que terá muita importância na vida do autor russo: o tema do desejo, neste caso apreendido do ponto de vista feminino.
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Portuguese
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Escrito entre 1865 e 1869, "Guerra e Paz" é provavelmente a obra-prima de Tolstoi e uma das maiores criações literárias de sempre.
Tendo como pano de fundo um cenário de guerra, com a invasão da Rússia por parte das tropas napoleónicas, esta novela épica surge como uma reflexão sobre a vida humana e a sua frágil existência. Nesta obra grandiosa, as personagens amam, odeiam e lutam, mas acima de tudo anseiam por encontrar o sentido da...
5) My Religion
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In My Religion, Leo Tolstoy accuses the church of hiding the true meaning of Jesus, which is to be found in the Sermon on the Mount and the call to resist evil. For Tolstoy, it is this command which has been most damaged by ecclesiastical interpretation. Tolstoy had not always been possessed of the religious ideas set forth in My Religion. For thirty-five years of his life he was, in the proper acceptation of the word, a nihilist-not a revolutionary...
6) Francisca
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Español
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"Francisca" es un cuento de León Tolstoi que explora temas de fe, compasión y la condición humana. La narrativa sigue la vida de Francisca, una campesina que vive una existencia sencilla y devota en la Rusia rural. A pesar de enfrentar numerosas dificultades e injusticias, Francisca se mantiene firme en su creencia en Dios y su compromiso de vivir una vida virtuosa. Sin embargo, cuando ocurre una tragedia y pierde a su amado hijo, la fe de Francisca...
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Français
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Léon Tolstoï est né en 1828 dans une petite ville de Russie. Son enfance est frappée par le malheur, consécutivement, il subit la perte de sa mère puis de son père et de sa grand-mère. Son tempérament, très sensible, l'amène à se poser très jeune des questions sur les inégalités sociales qu'il voit autour de lui. Il se fait soldat et les scènes de guerre auxquelles il participe seront la source de son roman le plus connu Guerre et...
8) The Devil
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Persian
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The Devil is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1911, after the write's death. It tells the story of a married landowner slowly overcome with unrelenting sexual desire for one of the peasants on his estate. Before his marriage, he had many sexual relationships with women while living in St. Petersburg. He inherited an estate in the country after the death of his father and he decided to leave the city. In his new life, he lives with his mother....
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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. Tolstoy brings to these brief tales the same psychological depth and spiritual insight found in his large novels. In fact, his short stories are an excellent place to begin reading this great author....
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The novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy was published in 1886 and is considered a masterpiece of his late period fiction. It tells the story of a high-court judge in nineteenth century Russia. He lives a simple, carefree life with his family until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Confined to bed, he is disgusted that his family avoids the subject of his death by pretending that he is only sick and not dying. He finds comfort...
12) Father Sergius
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Persian
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Father Sergius is a short story by Leo Tolstoy and was published in 1911. It tells the story of a young prince — known as Stepan Kasatsky - who becomes a priest. In the court, he falls in love with Countess Mary Korotkova and becomes engaged to her. But soon he discovers his fiancée was once a mistress to the emperor, Tsar Nicholas I.
This incident devastates him and he decides to leave the court and becomes a monk. As he is an ambitious high...
13) Hadjí Murat
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Español
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Tolstoy's novella blends fiction and historical fact to portray a legendary Avar chieftain who switched sides in the nineteenth-century Russo-Caucasian war. Inspired by the author's military service, Hadji Murád offers riveting views of warfare and treason, murder and vengeance, and behind-the-scenes political plotting. An uncharacteristically brief story by the creator of War and Peace, it voices Tolstoy's pacifist beliefs. This novella also provides...
14) Jodynka
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Español
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"Jodynka" es una novela corta de León Tolstoi ambientada en la Rusia rural del siglo XIX. La historia gira en torno a las vidas de los campesinos del pueblo de Jodynka y sus luchas contra las fuerzas opresivas de la pobreza y la injusticia social. En el centro de la narración está el personaje de Stepanida, una mujer compasiva y de carácter fuerte que se convierte en un faro de esperanza para sus compañeros del pueblo. A través del viaje de...
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Persian
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889. It tells the story of a man who killed his wife because of jealousy. The story begins on a train. Passengers start a conversation about the nature and purpose of marriage. Among them, there is a strange man who is nervous and uncommunicative. A lawyer on the train brings up the case of Pozdnyshev, a man who murdered his wife but was acquitted at trial. The strange man breaks his silence...
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This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Stories as different as “The Snowstorm”, “Lucerne”, “The Diary of a Madman”, and “The Devil” are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the...