This book, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication.
This book contains the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication.
- Childhood - Boyhood - Youth - The Cossacks - War and Peace - Father Sergius - Anna Karenina - Ivan the Fool - Evil allures, but good endures - Where Love is, There God is Also - The Death of Ivan Ilych - The Imp and the Crust - An Old Acquaintance - The Young Tsar - Master and Man - Esarhaddon, King of Assyria - Work, Death, and Sickness - There are No Guilty People - Little Girls Wiser Than Men
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.
Tolstoy is so good at getting to the understanding of the human condition. He understands the workings of the human mind so well. This is something good to read and contemplate so that one lives remembering their death. Don't get caught up in pleasure.