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Лев Миколайович Толстой

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When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of …

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A Calendar of Wisdom, or Path of life or A Cycle of Readings or Wise Thoughts for Every Day is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 that was published in three different editions. An English translation by Archibald J. Wolfe of the first Russian edition, which was organized …

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Севастопольські оповідання — цикл з трьох оповідань, написаних Львом Толстим і опублікованих в 1855 році. Оповідання описують оборону Севастополя в часи Кримської війни 1853 - 1856 років. Толстой пише про героїзм захисників міста, але й про нелюдську безглуздість …