Leo Tolstoy

Family Happiness (Summarized Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

Enriched edition. An age-gap Russian novella of youthful passion, marriage, and coming-of-age-a realistic nineteenth-century portrait of love's shifting dynamics.
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Produktbeschreibung

Family Happiness (1859) distills courtship, marriage, and the sobering education of desire. In Masha's first-person retrospect, a young heiress weds the older Sergey Mikhaylych; rapture in the countryside yields to Petersburg salons and estrangement, before a chastened peace. Tolstoy's psychological realism, spare, observant, quietly ironic, tracks how seasons and social milieus erode passion yet ripen companionship. Written amid the rise of Russian realism and published in The Russian Messenger, it foreshadows Anna Karenina and The Kreutzer Sonata. An aristocrat tempered by the Caucasus and Crimean wars, Tolstoy distrusted salon glitter and revered peasant steadiness at Yasnaya Polyana. His 1850s diaries record fierce self-examination, swings between indulgence and ascetic resolve, and experiments in education, sources for Sergey's sober ideals and Masha's schooling in disillusion. On the eve of his own marriage, he anatomized how ardor is transformed into duty. Readers seeking a lucid, unsentimental anatomy of domestic life will find this novella indispensable. Compact yet resonant, it rewards attention to tonal shifts, gesture, and social detail, ideal for courses on nineteenth-century realism and for admirers of Turgenev or Austen. It clarifies what love becomes when enchantment yields to conscience. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quickie Classics
• Seitenzahl: 65
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 8596547882060
• Artikelnr.: 76338960

Autorenporträt

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 - 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.[3] He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910 and the fact that he never won is a major Nobel prize controversy. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828,[3] he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877),[8] often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.[3] He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.[3] Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi[9] and Martin Luther King Jr.[10] Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection (1899).