Un cheval est chahuté par ses pairs car il est vieux. Il l'a été par les hommes car il est pie. Car il est différent. Pourtant, il cache un surprenant passé... En donnant la parole à ce cheval, Tolstoï évoque la décrépitude de la vieillesse, et prouve qu'il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences. Deux récits, deux prodiges déchus.

Le Cheval

It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home.

But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase.

The youthful landowner was asking ten thousand rubles for the grove simply because Vasili Andreevich was offering seven thousand. Seven thousand was, however, only a third of its real value. Vasili Andreevich might perhaps have got it down to his own price, for the woods were in his district and he had a long-standing agreement with the other village dealers that no one should run up the price in another's district, but he had now learnt that some timber-dealers from town meant to bid for the Goryachkin grove, and he resolved to go at once and get the matter settled. So as soon as the feast was over, he took seven hundred rubles from his strong box, added to them two thousand three hundred rubles of church money he had in his keeping, so as to make up the sum to three thousand; carefully counted the notes, and having put them into his pocket-book made haste to start.

Master and Man

Russie, 1880. Anna Karenine, est une jeune femme de la haute societe de Saint-Petersbourg. Elle est mariee a Alexis Karenine un haut fonctionnaire de l'administration imperiale, un personnage austere et orgueilleux. Ils ont un garcon de huit ans, Serge. Anna se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski, venu a la rencontre de sa mere. Elle tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole."

Anna Karenine - Tome I

Excerpt from La Mort d'Ivan IliitchPiotte Ivanovitch et ma femme sera tres contente. Elle ne pourra plus dire que je n'ai rien fait pour ses pa rents.

La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

This carefully crafted ebook: "Anna Karenina - The Unabridged Garnett Translation" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".
A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity.
About the Garnett translation: Constance Garnett's translation of Anna Karenina is still among the best. Some scholars feel that her language is closer to the 19th-century sense of the original. Garnett translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of Dostoyevsky's novels. A friend of Garnett's, D. H. Lawrence, was in awe of her matter-of-fact endurance, recalling her "sitting out in the garden turning out reams of her marvelous translations from the Russian. She would finish a page, and throw it off on a pile on the floor without looking up, and start a new page. That pile would be this high--really, almost up to her knees, and all magical."

Anna Karenina - The Unabridged Garnett Translation

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War And Peace

Anna Karenine - Tome I By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Anna Karénine - Tome I

Excerpt from Tolstoi par Tolstoi Avant Sa Crise Morale (1848-1879), Autobiographie EpistolaireJe ne puis me souvenir de ces annees de ma vie sans horreur, degout, douleur. Je tuais des hommes ala guerre, je les provoquais dans la meme intention en duel je perdais aux cartes, je mangeais le produitdu travail de mes serfs je chatiais les moujiks; je m'adonnais a la debauche. Mensonge, vol, luxure, ivrognerie, brutalite, assassinat..., il n'est pas de crime queje n'aie commis, et, pour tous ces actes odieux, on melouangeait, on me considerait et on me considere encore comme un homme relativement moral.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tolstoï par Tolstoï: Avant Sa Crise Morale (1848-1879), Autobiographie Épistolaire (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Resurrection: RomanEt aussitot elle s'approche, avec le gardien, de l'une des nombreuses portes donnant sur le corridor.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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