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Family Happiness

Leo Tolstoy

Short novel narrated by Masha, a young woman who marries Sergei Mikhailovich, a family friend and guardian much older than herself. After the first idyll, the boredom of the country and the temptations of society life in St Petersburg extinguish passionate love, which turns into a calm affection centred on the children. Published in The Russian Messenger in 1859.

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English

· 15 chapters · 3 h reading

  1. 1Katia1′
  2. 2CHAPTER I.12′
  3. 3CHAPTER II.17′
  4. 4CHAPTER III.20′
  5. 5CHAPTER IV.16′
  6. 6CHAPTER V.13′
  7. 7CHAPTER VI.18′
  8. 8CHAPTER VII.21′
  9. 9CHAPTER VIII.18′
  10. 10CHAPTER IX. · 110′
  11. 11CHAPTER IX. · 24′
  12. 12CHAPTER IX. · 35′
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. · 48′
  14. 14CHAPTER IX. · 59′
  15. 15CHAPTER IX. · 64′

Russian

· 9 chapters · 2 h reading

  1. 1Часть I/Глава I9′
  2. 2Часть I/Глава II13′
  3. 3Часть I/Глава III15′
  4. 4Часть I/Глава IV12′
  5. 5Часть I/Глава V12′
  6. 6Часть II/Глава VI17′
  7. 7Часть II/Глава VII15′
  8. 8Часть II/Глава VIII15′
  9. 9Часть II/Глава IX15′
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