Histoire d'un pauvre homme; Le père Serge; Lucerne; L'Évasion

Excerpt from Pages Choisies des Auteurs Contemporains: Tolstoi; Avec une IntroductionCet homme, qui a remue toutes les questions les plus graves et les plus pressantes de notre age, est encore lui meme l'un des problemes les plus troublants qui aient surgi devant ses contemporains.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.

Pages Choisies Des Auteurs Contemporains: Tolstoï; Avec Une Introduction (Classic Reprint)

In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.

This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise.

Father Sergius

Excerpt from Une Lettre InediteMais si, en 1887, ni la Sonate Kreutzer, ni Qu'est cc que l'art? N'avaient paru, la violente antipathie de Tolstoy pour l'art moderne n'en percait pas moins au travers de tous ses ecrits.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.

Une Lettre Inédite (Classic Reprint)

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Léon Tolstoï. Le 5 janvier 1872, dans la gare d'Iassenki, au centre de la Russie, une jeune femme se jette sous les roues d'un train. L'enquête établit rapidement que la malheureuse s'est suicidée parce que son amant, riche propriétaire foncier, l'a répudiée pour prendre une autre maîtresse. Le comte Léon Tolstoï est là. Debout dans un coin de la cabane, il observe avec intensité ce corps de femme qui gît, sanglant, sur la table. Un enseignement terrible rayonne jusqu'à lui des yeux révulsés de la morte. Pendant plus d'un an, il méditera sur ce drame passionnel qui deviendra la scène centrale d'"Anna Karénine". Mais "Anna Karénine" sera au final beaucoup plus que le récit d'un simple fait divers. C'est un roman parfait, ainsi qu'un poème à l'accent universel conçu dans le même courant d'idées que "Guerre et Paix", avec en toile de fond la peinture du grand Empire russe et des cercles aristocratiques de Saint-Pétersbourg commençant à se lézarder. C'est une vaste fresque d'une vérité et d'une fraîcheur exceptionnelles où l'inoubliable Anna Karénine se précipitant sous un train par désespoir d'amour, le brillant mais superficiel comte Wronsky, Lévine, Kitty, Oblonsky et tous les autres personnages, les évènements, les foules, les éléments naturels, sont plongés dans une atmosphère épique reflétant l'âme sensuelle et passionnée du peuple russe.

Ana Karenina

On the 12th of August, 18- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls. I peeped out from under the coverlet, steadied the still shaking image with my hand, flicked the dead fly on to the floor, and gazed at Karl Ivanitch with sleepy, wrathful eyes. He, in a particoloured wadded dressing-gown fastened about the waist with a wide belt of the same material, a red knitted cap adorned with a tassel, and soft slippers of goat skin, went on walking round the walls and taking aim at, and slapping, flies.

"Suppose, " I thought to myself, "that I am only a small boy, yet why should he disturb me? Why does he not go killing flies around Woloda's bed? No; Woloda is older than I, and I am the youngest of the family, so he torments me. That is what he thinks of all day long-how to tease me. He knows very well that he has woken me up and frightened me, but he pretends not to notice it. Disgusting brute! And his dressing-gown and cap and tassel too-they are all of them disgusting."

Childhood

Excerpt from Resurrection: RomanLe gardien et la Maslova entrerent dans le bureau ou se tenaient deja deux soldats, le fusil au bras. Le greffier remit a l'un d'eux un papier et montrant la detenue.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.

Résurrection: Roman (Classic Reprint)

Un homme prit une eponge, la trempa dans du vinaigre et la lui tendit au bout d'une canne. Jesus suca l'eponge, puis il dit a haute voix: C'est la fin! Pere, je remets mon esprit entre tes mains! Et baissant la tete, il expira. Avec le mot fin finit l'Evangile. Ceux qui expliquaient le caractere divin de Jesus par le fait qu'il ne ressemblait pas aux autres hommes - et ils ne se preoccupaient que de cela - voyaient la preuve de sa nature exceptionnelle dans sa resurrection. Au surplus, cette preuve ne peut avoir existe que pour ceux qui ont vu Jesus mourir et redevenir vivant. Or, ces temoins memes, d'apres les trois evangelistes, n'ont jamais existe. Seul Luc mentionne l'ascension du Christ devant 500 hommes, tandis que les autres la decrivent comme s'etant passee dans un songe...

Qu'est-ce que l'Évangile?

Excerpt from Pensées de Tolstoi: D'Àpres les d104es RussesOn peut encore signaler le livre de Dymon On Ward, Lon dres, 1821 et celui de Daniel Mussert Non-résistance asser led, Londres, 1864.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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