Leo Tolstoy

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Christianity - Other

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Leo Tolstoy - Confession (Version 2)

Leo Tolstoy's «A Confession,» written in 1882 shortly after a life-altering spiritual crisis, is a brutally sincere reflection on life, morality, and the nature of faith. Tolstoy describes in great detail the process...

Paul Rizik 2 hours 7 minutes

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Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

Single Author Collections

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Leo Tolstoy - Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 6 more 3 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness

After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St....

EvanJ 2 hours 59 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation)

I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accuracy. Numberless incongruities can be pointed out. He is as willing to adopt an...

MaryAnn 16 hours 3 minutes

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Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy - My Confession

«My Confession» is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions «What will come of my life?»...

Expatriate 2 hours 41 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood (version 2)

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels...

Expatriate 3 hours 54 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Sevastopol

Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol...

David Wales 4 hours 55 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Leo Tolstoy - Gospel In Brief

In this book, Tolstoy seeks to condense the four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, into one, by looking along the lines of the teachings of Jesus Christ found in each book. In doing so, he...

KHand 4 hours 38 minutes

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What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2)

Religious Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2)

This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By. What is the purpose of life? How are we expected to live with others? What...

bala and 1 more 1 hour 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)

”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a broad and mighty river flowing onward with all the majesty of Fate. On its...

MaryAnn 15 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Leo Tolstoy - Kreutzer Sonata

Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and...

Larry Caplan and 1 more 3 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 7

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive...

MaryAnn 4 hours 20 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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