Bøger af Leo N Tolstóy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's fiction, written after his conversion to Christianity. The novel tells the story of the life and death of a court judge in 19th-century Russia.

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The Living Corpse: A Drama In Six Acts And Twelve Tableaux is a play written by the renowned Russian author, Leo N. Tolstoy, and first published in 1919. The play follows the story of Prince Prozorov, a man who has been declared legally dead but is still alive. The prince's wife, Lisa, has left him for his brother, and he is left to deal with the consequences of his actions. The play explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption as the prince struggles to come to terms with his situation and find a way to move on. The Living Corpse is a powerful and thought-provoking work that showcases Tolstoy's skill as a writer and his ability to delve into the complexities of the human experience.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Of the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death, one is a short two-act Temperance play called in English The Cause of it All (the Russian title is a colloquialism difficult to render, but "From it all evil flows" is as near as one can get to it). It does not claim to be a piece of much importance, but if ever it is staged, it should act easily and well. Another of these posthumous plays is The Man Who Was Dead (The Live Corpse), a powerful piece, in which Tolstoy introduces one of those gipsy choirs which had such an influence on him (and still more on his brother Sergius) when he was a young man of twenty to twenty-three, before he went to the Caucasus and entered the army. The last of Tolstoy's plays, The Light That Shines in Darkness, was left unfinished.

The Man Who Was Dead, The Cause of it All, and The Light That Shines in the Darkness are the three plays left by Tolstoy for publication after his death. The Light That Shines in the Darkness -- the last of Tolstoy's plays, was left unfinished. In Russia it is prohibited on account of its allusions to the refusal of military service. Yet it is in some ways the most interesting of Tolstoy's posthumous works. It is obviously not strictly autobiographical, for Tolstoy was not assassinated as the hero of the piece is, nor was his daughter engaged to be married to a young prince who refused military service. But like some of his other writings, the play is semi-autobiographical. In it, not only has Tolstoy utilised personal experiences, but more than that, he answers the question so often asked: Why, holding his views, did he not free himself from property before he grew old?

CONTENTSHow the Devil Redeemed the Crust of BreadThe Repentant SinnerThe Kernel of the Size of a Hen's EggHow Much Land a Man NeedsThe GodsonThree SonsLabourer Emelyán and the Empty Drum

Originally published in 1886, this was one of Tolstoy's several religious and moral works in that period of his life.