Family Happiness

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.>

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241746936
• ISBN: 978-0-241-74693-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Archive
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century, Novella (Short Novel), Classic fiction: general and literary, Russia: Northwestern District