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Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina , but during his long lifetime Tolstoy wrote numerous shorter works to fill many volumes. Included here are two of his finest short novels-- Family Happiness... Read Full Overview

Masha, a seventeen-year-old orphan, lives in her family's old estate with her sister and governess. Her only respite is the visits from Sergey Mikhailich, the handsome estate administrator twice her age. Their quiet affection blossoms into love in this tender portrait of marriage... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two... Read Full Overview

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First published in 1859.

Family Happiness is a novel that concerns the love of a young girl, Mashechka, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. After she gets married, she finds that married life and her feelings for Mikhaylych are much more complex than she had thought initially... Read Full Overview

From the depths of Tolstoy's experiences and from the standards of his heart comes the story Family Happiness, in which he explores the nature of happiness through the relationship between Sergey Mikhailich and Marya Alexandrovna. However, unlike the story of Sergey and Masha,... Read Full Overview

Katia is the 1859 novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story is about young wife and her much older husband that come to realize they want different things out of life.

There are ideals of happiness are not the same. The tone of the book is set but the opening line. "We... Read Full Overview

A hist ria narrada por Mashechka, uma garota de dezessete anos que encontra seu primeiro amor em um homem mais velho, amigo da fam lia. Diante deste novo sentimento, ela relata atrav s de suas impress es e sua inoc ncia suas descobertas sobre a paix o, as rela es conjugais e... Read Full Overview

Tolstoy is considered one of the giants of Russian literature; his works include the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina and novellas such as Hadji Murad and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Tolstoy's earliest works, the autobiographical novels Childhood, Boyhood,... Read Full Overview

La madre de Mashenka ha muerto. Hace alg?n tiempo hab?a sucedido lo mismo con su padre, de suerte que ha quedado sola, encargada de Sonia -su hermana menor- y apenas guiada por Katia, la institutriz. Mashenka tiene 17 a?os y debido a este triste panorama se muestra circunspecta... Read Full Overview