Lev Tolstoi

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.

Guerra i pau és una novel·la de l'escriptor rus Lev Tolstoi. La va començar a escriure quan estava convalescent d'una caiguda de cavall que va patir durant una cacera l'any 1864. La novel·la va aparèixer inicialment com una sèrie al diari Ruski Vestnik, en rus «Русский Вестник», al número de gener de 1865. A finals de …