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Excerpt from The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi, Vol. 2: ResurrectionA woman gathers a little grass for her cow, she's caught and imprisoned, said the White-bearded old man.Our own land is five versts away, and as to renting any it's impossible, the price is raised so high that it won't pay, added the cross, toothless old man. They twist us into ropes, worse than during serfdom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from The Gospel in BriefThis present book is extracted from a larger work, which exists in manuscript, and cannot be published in Russia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original form...

Excerpt from What to Do?: Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow A voice from Russia - the voice, as it were, of a prophet -has proclaimed another and inexorable way. A nobleman, rich and famous, a popular novelist, a great land-owner, with every thing in his grasp that ambition might suggest, found himself face to face with this question. He had lived the idle, luxurious life of the upper classes, the world over, and thought to compound w...

Excerpt from Anna Karénina, Vol. 2 of 2Vronsky, as master of ceremonies, arranged, with no little difficulty, a programme of amusements, truly Russian in character. There were races, blinni, or carnival cakes, bear hunts, troika parties, gypsies, and feasts set forth with Russian dishes, and the prince quickly entered into the spirit Of these Russian sports, broke his waiter Of glasses with the rest, took a gypsy girl on his knee, and then ask...

Excerpt from Anna KaréninaYes, how was it? Yes! Alabin gave a dinner at Darm stadt, no, not at Darmstadt, but it was something American. Yes, but this Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin gave a dinner on glass tables, yes, and the tables sang, I l mio tesoro, no, not 12 mio tesoro, ' but something better, and some little decanters - they were women! Said he, continuing his recollections.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from Resurrection It would be a task of literary supererogation to point out in detail the aims that Tolstoi pursued in writing the last of his great trilogy, "Resurrection." The "Great Writer of the Russian Land, " as Tourguénef was the first to call him, had devoted his whole life to the betterment, the uplift, of his fellow-men. The two preceding prose epopees, "War and Peace" and "Anna Kare'nina, " may be likened to huge canvases ...

Excerpt from The Compete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï: War and Peace, V-Vi The human intellect cannot grasp the idea of absolutely uninterrupted motion. Man can begin to understand the laws of any kind of motion only when he takes into consideration arbitrarily selected units of such motion. But at the same time from this arbitrary division of unbroken motion into measurable units flows the greater part of human errors. Takes, for instance, the ...

Excerpt from Essays, Letters, Miscellanies He returns again and again to his plea for Christians to unite on the five simple commands of Christ and put them into practice. The Three Parables and the Letter to N. N. Contain a rather unusual and pathetic personal note which cannot help touching the heart, bringing out so evidently the man's generous sincerity and simplicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands ...

Excerpt from Master and Man: A Story This we thought worthy of particular mention. The wonderful art of Tolstoi', and far beyond that, his simple and lofty morality, are, it seems to us, as powerfully presented here as in any of his work. These, reader cannot overlook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an importan...

Excerpt from Iván Ilyitch, and Other Stories The story of Vasarga is four centuries old, and Russia has not even a constitution. Will Count Tols tor's theories of non-resistance and communism, of the blessings of poverty and service, be in practice four hundred years hence? These stories will be regarded both seriously and as curiosities, for it is impossible not to read between the lines. The only wonder is, that the censor who forbade My R...

Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 2Pierre was under his tutelage at Moscow, and Prince Vasili procured for him an appointment as gentleman in-waiting, which at that time conferred the same rank as Councillor of State, and he insisted on the young man accompanying him to Petersburg and taking up his residence in his own mansion.Without making any exertion, and at the same time taking it absolutely for granted that he was on the right track, Prin...

Excerpt from The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 11: The Cossacks, And, Sevastopol It is Count Tolsto'i himself who lies down in the lair of the old stag, and, while enduring like a martyr the stings of the myriads of gnats which light on him, comes to the conclusion that his hitherto unsatisfied craving for happiness can be realized only by living for others. It is the same man who later renounces all personal property, and b...

Excerpt from War and Peace, Vol. 5This new branch of mathematics, which was unknown to the ancients, and applies so admirably to the problems of motion, by admitting infinitesimally small quantities, - that is, those by which the principal condition of motion is reestablished, - namely, absolute continuity, in itself corrects the inevitable error which the human mind is bound to make when it contemplates the sepa rate units of motion instead o...

Excerpt from Anna Karénina, Vol. 1 of 2To preserve, so far as possible, the spirit and style of the original, has been the translator's aim in presenting, for the first time to English readers, Count Tolsto'i's great novel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

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