Family Happiness

Family Happiness

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger. The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka , and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych , an old family friend. This maybe echoes Tolstoy's own marriage to a woman of 18 when he was 34. After a somewhat awkward courtship, the two are married and move to Mikhaylych's home. Over the course of the 100-page story, Mashechka finds that married life and her feelings for Mikhaylych are much more complex than she had thought and have little to do with her previous, slightly naive,...
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Author:Leo Tolstoy
Genre:Fiction
Year published:1859

Author of Family Happiness

Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910
Birthplace:Yasnaya Polyana

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ; known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels...
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Additional works by Leo Tolstoy
BookCopyright DateGenre
War and Peace War novel
Anna Karenina Novel
Childhood
Youth
Resurrection
Boyhood
The Kreutzer Sonata 1890 Novel
Hadji Murat Historical fiction
The Cossacks Novella
Sebastopol Sketches Historical fiction
A Confession
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Philosophy
Sochineniya gr. L. N. Tolstogo, chast' 12 1886 Speculative fiction
The Forged Coupon Fiction
The Fruits of Enlightenment
The Living Corpse
What Is Art?
A Calendar of Wisdom
What Men Live By
Kholstomer
Father Sergius
Resurrection
Where love is there God is also
Master and Man
Twenty Three Tales
Sebastopol in December
My Confession
Voina i Mir
Master and Man
Stories for My Children
La Guerre Et La Paix II
Nine Stories
Lion and Honeycomb Tpb
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
What is art? and essays on art
Anna Karénina
Tolstoi's short stories
The complete works
"Bethink yourselves!"
Letters on war
Where God is love is
Short short stories
Katia
Resurrection
Iván the fool
kingdom of God and peace essays
death of Ivan Ilyitch and other stories
Hadji Murád and other stories
forged coupon
My confession
Master and man, and other parables and tales
Evangelie Tolstogo
guerre et la paix
Volkserzählungen
Fables and fairytales
Tolstoy's diaries, 1847-1910
Childhood, boyhood, youth
Detstvo =
What is art? and essays on art
Essays and letters
Voskresenie
Khadzhi-Murat
Tales of Sevastopol
Nine stories
cossacks
Pedagogicheskie sochineniya
law of violence and the law of love
Guerre et paix, tome 1
Les récits de Sébastopol
Le Divin et l'humain
La matinée d'un seigneur
Résurrection
Tolstoï : Journaux et carnets, tome 3
Les Cosaques
Tolstoï
Hadji-Mourat
Enfance et adolescence
Confession
Anna Karenin
Anna Karénin
Boyhood, adolescence, and youth
The Christian teaching
A confession
Death and the meaning of life
Demands of love and reason
The devil
The diaries of Leo Tolstoy
Divine and human and other stories
The divine and the human and other stories
Esarhaddon
The four Gospels harmonized and translated by Leo Tolstoy
The Gospel according to Tolstoy
Great short works of Leo Tolstoy
Hadji Murád
How I came to believe ("my confession")
I cannot be silent
The invaders and other stories
Iván Ilých and Hadji Murád
Iván Ilyitch
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