Family Happiness (EasyRead Large Edition)

Product Description Family Happiness (1859) is a novella by novelist and philosopher Leo Tolstoy about the love between a youthful girl and an old family friend. Through this work, Tolstoy elaborates on the principles for a married life that, in his view, lead to eternal peace and contentment for both partners. About the Author Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.