A brief meditation on depression, philosophy, religion, and the meaning of life.

Tolstoy describes true Christianity as a non-hierarchical, nonviolent, non-coercive pursuit, and criticizes institutional Christianity as a deceptive corruption.

A socialite starts an affair with a cavalry officer, against a backdrop of wealthy family life in Imperialist Russia.

The story of five families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

The legendary warrior Hadji Murád struggles to free his family against the backdrop of Russian imperialism in Chechnya and Dagestan.

A collection of all of the short stories and novellas written by Leo Tolstoy.

A Russian landlord makes reparations to the woman he wronged in his youth.

Leo Tolstoy outlines his philosophy of aesthetics.

Arkady returns to his father’s estate accompanied by his friend from university—a nihilist.

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.

Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.