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by Leo Tolstoy

The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes Anna Karenina and The Cossacks.

Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillosa a la literatura universal, esta serie hermosamente diseñada pone las obras de los autores mundialmente conocidos al alcance de todos.

672 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2004

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[DiAngeloFan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy buen libro. Anna Karenina me gusto bastante, el final me impacto y siento que los personajes estaban bien desarollados. Tambien me gusto como el libro sirve como una ventana a la vida de los ricos en la Rusia de aquel entonces. Los cosacos tambien me parecio muy interesante y el final tambien sorprendente. En ambos casos siento que Tolstoy hace un muy buen trabajo con sus descripciones y generando tension y emocion en el lector ante la forma en que narra los diferentes eventos que van ocurriendo. 4.5 estrellas!

[Luciano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anna Karenina 4,5/5
Los cosacos 5/5