Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 7 - A Russian Proprietor; The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 7: A Russian Proprietor; The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories

Family Happiness is a romance complete in itself. It is the autobiography of a young, passionate, and sus ceptible woman, who, being thrown into the society of her guardian, marries him, and too late discovers that the love which she has to bestow is met by a philosophic liking so cold as thoroughly to disenchant her. She narrowly escapes shipwreck, not through any inherent badness, but by the force of inertia, which lets her drift with the stream toward the chasm of illicit passion. She wins a certain serenity, and happiness returns in her acceptance of the inevitable and in her devotion to duty. It is a wonderful study of a woman's soul, and is the most poetic of Count Tolsto'f's works; it is shot through and through with the music of nightingales.

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (1852-1856) and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's 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 20th-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Bevel. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Leo Tolstoy
• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2015
• Seiten: 664
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
• Gewicht: 876 g
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher