The Landlord's Morning
A story that weaves together passages centered on Nejliúdov. A young rural gentleman drops out of college to seek to improve the lives of the peasants in his village. He tells his aunt that he is doing it...
TOLSTOI, León
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Ivan Ilich is a civil servant in the tsarist administration whose main aspiration, like that of his colleagues, is to climb the social ladder to maintain his welfare and remain part of the aristocracy....
Albert and Lucerne
The book brings together two short writings by Lev Tolstoy centered on music, very dear to the author, and written at the same time: 1857 and 1858. The topic that unites them is music. It has an exceptional...
Ivan the Fool
All the devil's efforts to corrupt Ivan, to provoke his greed and ambition with money and other promises are in vain. Ivan ruins again and again the tricks that the devil uses to get him on his own side. In...
Two Hussars
In this brief work Tolstoy describes the loss of exemplarity by the Russian military aristocracy in the first half of the 19th century, making use of the life of two hussars, father and son. Count Turbin is...