The Devil (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description <br/>Leo Tolstoy's novella The Devil (1889) involves the lures of evil and the difficulty of following the right path. The protagonist, Eugene, is faced with a dilemma of his own making. A libertine in his youth, he is bent upon mending his ways and has married a young and loving woman. But the memories from the past persist and entice him to a path that can only lead to destruction.<br/> About the Author <br/>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.