Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined ...
De hoofdfiguur, Oliver Twist, wordt geboren in diepe armoede. Zijn moeder sterft kort na zijn geboorte en zijn vader is onbekend. Oliver belandt na acht jaar in een weeshuis te heb...
"Ma confession" (en russe : Исповедь [Ispoved']) est une courte œuvre de confession du célèbre romancier russe Léon Tolstoï sur le thème de la mélancolie, de la philosophie et de l...
IN one of his letters to his great-aunt, Alexandra Andreyevna Tolstoy, my father gives the following description of his children:The eldest [Sergei] is fair-haired and good-looking...
1885. The doctrine of simplification has many adherents in Russia, and when, some time ago, it was announced that the author of "War and Peace" had retired to the country and was l...
"Father Sergius" (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.The story b...