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Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it?’
How does love die? This question lies at the heart of Tolstoy’s desperately sad novella. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Masha who, despite their differences, falls passionately in love with an older man, and marries him. Soon, however, the gap between them becomes unbridgeable.
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The Fire Next Time
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Burial of the Rats
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Where Everything is Music
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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Why I am a Stoic
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A Hunger-Artist
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Transformation
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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Coal
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The New Dress
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Secretary
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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Thousand Cranes
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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After Midnight
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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Horsie
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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Requiem
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Tristessa
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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The Story of an Hour
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The Prose Edda
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The Umbrella
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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To Read and Dream
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Lois the Witch
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
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The Broken Nest
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A Lady in Kyoto
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Anna Karenina
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War and Peace
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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How Much Land Does A Man Need?
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
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Anna Karenin
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A Calendar of Wisdom
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Resurrection
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A Confession and Other Religious Writings
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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A Confession
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The Cossacks and Other Stories
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
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The Gospel in Brief
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241746936 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241746930 |
| Title | Family Happiness |
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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