Anna Karenine - Tome I By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Anna Karénine - Tome I

La Guerre et la Paix – Anna Karénine – Résurrection

La mort d'Ivan Ilitch suivi de Maître et serviteur

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.
Contents:

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes

G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol

L.M. Montgomery
The Red Room
A Christmas Mistake
A Christmas Inspiration
The Josephs' Christmas
Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Osbornes' Christmas
Bertie's New Year
Ida's New Year Cake
The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
Clorinda's Gifts
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
The Unforgotten One
Christmas at Red Butte
Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner

L. Frank Baum
A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Little Bun Rabbit

Mark Twain
A Letter from Santa Claus

Louisa May Alcott
A Merry Christmas

Leo Tolstoy
A Russian Christmas Party

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
The Three Kings

Nikolai Gogol
Christmas Eve

William Dean Howells
Christmas Everyday
The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Christmas in India

Elizabeth Harrison
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe

John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hans Christian Andersen
The Fir Tree

The Little Match Girl

Selma Lagerlof
The Holy Night

Clement Moore
The Night Before Christmas

Henry van Dyke
The Other Wise Man

Beatrix Potter
The Tailor of Gloucester

Anton Chehov
Vanka

O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi

Hesba Stretton
The Christmas Child

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows

Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas at Sea

Walter Scott
Christmas In The Olden Time

Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells

Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel

Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall

Thomas Hardy
The Oxen

William Butler Yeats
The Magi

William Makepeace Thackeray
The Mahogany Tree

Charles Kingsley
Christmas Day

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christmas Fancies

C. W. Stubbs
Twas Jolly, Jolly Wat

Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas

Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Christmas Folksong

William Topaz McGonagall
A Tale of Christmas Eve

Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman

50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literature. French and English and German authors, too, occasionally, offer works of lofty, simple naturalness; but the very keynote to the whole of Russian literature is simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness.

Another essentially Russian trait is the quite unaffected conception that the lowly are on a plane of equality with the so-called upper classes. When the Englishman Dickens wrote with his profound pity and understanding of the poor, there was yet a bit; of remoteness, perhaps, even, a bit of caricature, in his treatment of them. He showed their sufferings to the rest of the world with a "Behold how the other half lives!" The Russian writes of the poor, as it were, from within, as one of them, with no eye to theatrical effect upon the well-to-do. There is no insistence upon peculiar virtues or vices. The poor are portrayed just as they are, as human beings like the rest of us. A democratic spirit is reflected, breathing a broad humanity, a true universality, an unstudied generosity that proceed not from the intellectual conviction that to understand all is to forgive all, but from an instinctive feeling that no man has the right to set himself up as a judge over another, that one can only observe and record.

Classical Russian Short Stories

War and Peacebroadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.

La Guerre et la Paix

Anna Karenine: roman. Tome 1er / Leon Tolstoi; trad. du russeDate de l'edition originale: 1896Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.

Anna Karénine: Roman. Tome 1er

Le plan en est simple. Tolstoï commence par résumer les principales thèses esthétiques en vigueur. Puis, il pointe la nouveauté de l’art moderne : avoir dissocié l’art de la beauté. Il s’attaque ensuite aux artistes « pervers » : Baudelaire, Mallarmé et Verlaine, et tempête devant leur hermétisme, leur décadence. Il s’attaque aussi à Wagner, de manière hilarante. Puis, il s’en prend aux critiques et dénonce leur stupidité. Mais sa virulence ne vise pas seulement la modernité. Il maudit aussi les Grecs, pour qui l’art est une « grossièreté » faite pour chanter – horreur ! – la joie de vivre, la force et la beauté. Il s’en prend également aux élites, faisant du Bourdieu avant la lettre, critiquant leur définition étroite de la beauté, cantonnée aux goûts inconscients de leur classe. Il montre l’épuisement au travail des ouvriers pour satisfaire les goûts ridicules de la classe dominante : sa description outrée d’un dialogue d’opéra, irréaliste au possible, est d’une drôlerie forcenée. Enfin, Tolstoï donne sa définition positive de l’art, celle d’une activité placée sous le sceau de l’union, du haut et du bas et des hommes entre eux. Contre la corruption de l’art qu’il exècre, Tolstoï met ses dons de romancier au service d’une esthétique d’inspiration chrétienne et appelle à une rénovation de l’art. Puis, Tolstoï analyse la part spirituelle de l’art, sur laquelle il a décidé de fonder sa doctrine : l’art, pour lui, réside dans la communication d’un sentiment par l’imagination. Il a pour conséquence la transmission et le partage, et sa condition naturelle est la sincérité de l’artiste. Ethique et esthétique marchent ainsi main dans la main. A rebours des esthétiques en forme de systèmes, il est intéressant de lire les thèses d’un grand romancier à propos de l’art. Cela donne une esthétique pour ainsi dire « de l’intérieur » qui aide a mieux comprendre son œuvre. Mais cela donne aussi un court traité extrêmement vivant. Le ton passionné de l’auteur fait rire aux larmes quand il ridiculise ses ennemis, les pédants, les philosophes abscons, et rêver quand il nomme « expériences esthétiques » la peau veloutée d’une femme ou un verre de lait dans la montagne...

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