The Complete Collection - Leo Tolstoy

Category: Literature, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Collection Leo Tolstoy Russian tolstoy

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Read by Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy’s 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators.

The titles included in this collection are:

War and Peace – 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.

Anna Karenina – The 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.

Resurrection – It tells the story of a nobleman’s attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy’s vision of redemption, achieved through loving forgiveness and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author’s outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.

Novellas and Short Stories

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Family Happiness
The Cossacks
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Forged Coupon
Hadji Murat
Sevastopol Sketches
The Coffee-House of Surat
Master and Man
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Alyosha the Pot
Ivan the Fool

Non-Fiction

The Kingdom of God Is Within You
A Confession
The Inevitable Revolution
What Is Art?