In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. The three "Sebastopol Sketches" - December', May' and August' - re-create what happened during different phases of the siege and its effect on the ordinary men around him. Writing with the truth as his utmost aim, he brought home to Russia's entire literate public the atrocities of war. In doing so, he realized his own vocation as a writer and established his literary reputation.
10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol.5 : The Odyssey, The Republic, Meditations, The Divine Comedy, Faust and others
Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy
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50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems : A Christmas Carol, A Merry Christmas, A Letter from Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, The Gift of the Magi and others
Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Harrison, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry van Dyke, Beatrix Potter, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Hesba Stretton, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, Eugene Field, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Topaz McGonagall, Emily Dickinson, G.K. Chesterton
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Anna Karenina (Unabridged)
Leo Tolstoy
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Classic Philosophical Works (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Apology of Socrates, Tao Te Ching...)
Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, Leo Tolstoy, Immanuel Kant, Sun Tzu
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Sevastopol Tales
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Anna Karenina
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The Leo Tolstoy Collection : Alyosha the Pot, Kholstomer, A Russian Christmas Party, A Confession, God Sees the Truth, But Waits, A Letter to a Hindu, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich : A Timeless Novella of Inner Crisis, Spiritual Clarity, and the Search for Truth
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Anna Karenina : A Timeless Russian Epic on the Price of Passion and the Weight of Morality
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La muerte de Iván Ilich : Una poderosa reflexión sobre el sentido de la existencia humana
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War and Peace : A Monumental Masterpiece of Russian Literature and Historical Insight
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The Complete Novels and Novellas of Leo Tolstoy : War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and More Timeless Russian Classics
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