Lev Tolstoj

This edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.

"The Devil" is a novella by Leo Tolstoy. 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 time, "The Devil" deals with the consequences of sexual emotion.

Krig og fred er en verdenskendt roman af den russiske forfatter Lev Tolstoj, udgivet i 1869. Sammen med Anna Karenina fra 1877 bliver den betragtet som Tolstojs vigtigste værk. Romanen kredser om Napoleons krig mod Rusland i 1812, men handlingen koncentrerer sig primært om fem forskellige familier fra det russiske …