In the words of the translator of this volume "The Kingdom of God is Within You" is one of the most remarkable studies of the social and psychological condition of the modern world
Tolstoy's controversial novella - here presented in a new translation, along with 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Master and Man' and 'After the Ball' - is now considered one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late period.
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics.
Pourquoi dit-on myope comme une taupe ? Laid comme un pou ? ou Doux comme un agneau ? Mais surtout, les taupes sont-elles vraiment myopes et les poux vraiment laids ? On dit que les agneaux sont doux et sages mais il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi.
The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
Vor dem Hintergrund der russisch-napoleonischen Kriege erzählt Krieg und Frieden in wahrhaft meisterlicher Manier die Geschichte dreier Familein, deren Schicksale eng miteinander vewoben sind.
Lev Tolstoj — odin iz naibolee izvestnykh russkikh pisatelej i myslitelej i odna iz samykh protivorechivykh lichnostej po obemu i poljarnosti vyzyvaemykh sporov.