Leo Tolstoy

A collection of short stories by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy - 1828-1910.)by Alan Davis Drake
https://archive.org/details/LevNikolayevichTolstoy-SelectedShortStories

Too Dear!

The Repentant Sinner

Little Girls Wiser Than Men

The Imp and the Crust

A collection of short stories by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy - 1828-1910.) by Alan Davis Drake.
https://archive.org/details/LevNikolayevichTolstoy-SelectedShortStories

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

The Great Bear

A Grain As Big As a Hen's Egg

Evil Allures, But Good Endures

The Coffee-House of Surat

Maggie Gyllenhaal performs a classic story of doomed love that remains one of the most admired novels in literature. Available now at adbl.co/AnnaKarenina

"Anna Karenina is one of my favorite books. But when I agreed to read it for Audible, I had no idea how much work it would be, how intense it would be, and how deeply I would fall in love with it. There were places where I thought 'if I don't give Alexey Alexandrovitch the respect that he deserves in my reading of this scene, a critical part of the book will be ruined. If I don't give EVERYONE the utmost respect and understanding, I'm not doing justice to this brilliantly compassionate book.' But at the same time, I also wanted to have a light touch in the way I played the different characters, so that the magnificence of the novel could shine through. I feel like performing this novel is one of the major accomplishments of my work life - it was so challenging and so deep, a real pleasure." (Narrator Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight, The Honourable Woman) cites Tolstoy's epic as one of her favorite books of all time, and her love for the literature permeates her performance. Anna Karenina is a masterpiece not only because of the unforgettable woman at its core and the stark drama of her fate but also because it explores and illuminates the deepest questions about how to live a fulfilled life. 

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal

'Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.'

Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance.
Listen to Rosamund Bartlett, editor and translator of the Oxford World’s Classics edition, introduce Anna Karenina and Leo Tolstoy’s style on the links below.

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Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation. Adapted for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Leo Tolstoy's epic story follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. First broadcast on New Year's Day 2015, the drama also features Alun Armstrong, Natasha Little, David Calder, Phoebe Fox, Sam Reid and Joanna David. "Tolstoy’s imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast" - The Spectator Duration: 10 hours approx.

Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1112397/war-and-peace/#78YdC3wI9zjql3o5.99

War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy (BBC Radio Dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker)

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/18/tolstoy-reading-rare-1909-recording/

The fascinating story of A Calendar of Wisdom, with selected highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/15/a-calendar-of-wisdom-tolstoy/

Leo Tolstoy

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