Leo Tolstoy: Stories

Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, and eventually takes her own life.

Nikolai Irtenyev looks back on his early years with a mix of nostalgia and introspection.

The book follows the life of a proud and ambitious nobleman in 19th-century Russia, whose life takes a dramatic spiritual turn.

A landowner and his servant set out on horseback in a sledge to buy some land in a nearby village on a cold winter day.

A wealthy aristocrat who serves on a jury and is shocked to find that the woman on trial is someone he once seduced and abandoned years earlier.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is an epic novel set in early 19th-century Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.