War and Peace - formato ePub

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 19/02/2018.  Sposata infelicemente con Aleksej Aleksandrovic Karenin, la bellissima e aristocratica Anna si innamora del giovane ufficiale Aleksej Kirillovic Vronskij, affascinante...

Questo volume comprende tre racconti scritti da Lev Tolstoj: La tempesta di neve, Albert e la felicità familiare. Nel primo lo scrittore analizza il comportamento degli uomini davanti alla furia e alle...

"The last word of the landlord's literature and the brilliant one at that." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The best ever Russian historical novel." —Nikolai Leskov "One of the most remarkable books of our age."...

"Guerra e pace" è un romanzo storico di Lev Tolstoj. Pubblicato per la prima volta tra il 1865 ed il 1869 sulla rivista Russkij Vestnik, riguarda la storia di due famiglie, i Bolkonskij e i Rostov, durante...

La “Confessione” occupa un posto di rilievo fra gli scritti autobiografici di Tolstoi. La pubblicazione del libro sconvolse l’opinione pubblica sia in Russia che all’estero suscitando notevole ammirazione...

Uno dei più famosi e influenti romanzi storici di tutti i tempi, fu pubblicato per la prima volta, come molti altri romanzi dell'epoca, a puntate sulla rivista 'Russkij Vestnik'. A causa della vastità...

Anna Karenina, ovvero la passione senza freni di Anna per un giovane ufficiale, il conte Vronskij. Così travolgente da sfidare le convenzioni e mettere da parte ogni obbligo sociale. Per Vronskij Anna...

Un racconto scritto tra il 1889 e il 1891, ma pubblicato postumo solamente nel 1911. È la storia di un principe, Stepan Kasatskij, la cui carriera di brillante aristocratico subirà un taglio netto quando...

The Devil is a short story by Lev Tolstoj. It was written in 1889, given an alternative ending in 1909,but published only posthumously in 1911. Like Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, written around the same...

Un’ordinaria giornata nel Caucaso dell’Ottocento di un gruppo di soldati russi raccontata dal punto di vista di un giovane ufficiale. Il racconto lungo qui presentato, l’autobiografico “Il taglio del...

Uno dei più famosi racconti lunghi di Lev Tolstòj, in cui lo scrittore mette a confronto due generazioni di nobili russi. Nella prima parte della storia, ambientata nel 1828, si racconta l’avventura di...

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Resurrezione è l’ultimo romanzo di Lev Tolstoj, scritto nel 1899 narra la storia di Nechljudov, giurato al processo dove viene condannata la donna da lui un tempo sedotta. Divorato dal rimorso , abbandona...

Questo libro è a layout fisso Dopo la morte del padre, Evgenji si trasferisce in campagna con l’anziana madre per gestire la proprietà di famiglia. La vita scorre serena e perfetta per il giovane uomo...

Scritto da Lev Tolstoj tra il 1863 e il 1869, Guerra e pace è considerato il più grande romanzo russo. In questa celeberrima opera si fondono due narrazioni: da una parte, i grandi avvenimenti storici...

Sonata a Kreutzer, composta da Beethoven per violino e pianoforte e dedicata al celebre musicista francese, è un'opera unica rispetto al resto della produzione di Tolstoj. Pubblicata nel 1891 appartiene...

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