The Leo Tolstoy Complete Collection

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war." From the sweeping grandeur of War and Peace to the heartbreaking intricacies of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection contains unabridged recordings of fiction and non-fiction by one of literature's greatest storytellers. This anthology contains all Tolstoy's major novels, novellas and short stories together with four renowned works of non-fiction. The titles included in this collection are: Novels: War and Peace: This epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of several families against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. It follows Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfilment; 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. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. Anna Karenina: Widely considered to be one of Tolstoy's finest works, Anna Karenina is both a tragic love story and an exploration of the complexities of love, infidelity, and societal expectations in 19th-century Russia. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalises her family and the hypercritical and unforgiving society in which she lives and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake.