Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 7: A Russian Proprietor; The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Leo Tolstoy

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Excerpt from Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 7: A Russian Proprietor; The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other StoriesFamily Happiness is a romance complete in itself. It is the autobiography of a young, passionate, and sus ceptible woman, who, being thrown into the society of her guardian, marries him, and too late discovers that the love which she has to bestow is met by a philosophic liking so cold as thoroughly to disenchant her. She narrowly escapes shipwreck, not through any inherent badness, but by the force of inertia, which lets her drift with the stream toward the chasm of illicit passion. She wins a certain serenity, and happiness returns in her acceptance of the inevitable and in her devotion to duty. It is a wonderful study of a woman's soul, and is the most poetic of Count Tolsto'f's works; it is shot through and through with the music of nightingales.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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Forgotten Books
9781331581567
Paperback
2020
EN
662 pages
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