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Family Happiness and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 776 Users | 47 Reviews

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ISBN:	0486440818 (ISBN13: 9780486440811)
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Characters:	Aku, Katya, Sonya, Sergei
Setting:	Russian Federation

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Tolstoy has the ability to create a rich world full of its own detail and atmosphere within a mere 80 some pages. That alone is a gift. That aside, "Family Happiness" really made me depressed. Even though I've never been married, the issues and the dialogue in the arguments were all too familiar with what unfortunately tends to happen to many long term relationships.

The story of "Family Happiness" discusses the course of love within a relationship--- its development from "romantic love" to this sort of dumbed-down, dulled-down version of what Tolstoy considers to be the love that a marriage aspires to be-- one built on the love of the children and a shift from a romantic/desirous love for the spouse to a mutual respect for the parent of your child.

The odd part of it all for me was that the main character, Masha, was actually happy with this at the end, which made no sense to me whatsoever. The end of her romance with her husband and the birth of this new version of love, one that feels sterile and PG, and watered down was something that I cringed at by the end of the story.

If this is a happy marriage, I don't want it.

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Title	:	Family Happiness and Other Stories
Author	:	Leo Tolstoy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	August 15th 2005 by Dover Publications (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories

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some of the most beautiful imagery portrayed through his almost simplistic writing, only to be ruined by personally a very underwhelming ending. I was so conflicted on the final parts of the book when after all the development on these quite complex characters their solution or resolution to the situation seemed to be very contrived or even possibly 'out of character'.

I read Family Happiness some 3 years ago but I remember that feeling that crept into me after I closed the book: a mix of sadness and happiness, I think I've never felt like that after I read something - I was just so happy for Masha for finding happiness with her newborn and husband,but also sad because while finding happiness in her new life as a woman, she stepped out of her childhood (I think she was about 18 or 20 then) and also because I think girls shouldn't get married at such tender

I really enjoyed Family Happiness, I was captured by its every word! However, the rest of the short stories included were written in a different way, in which i found it extremely hard to keep reading. I would recommend Family Happiness to everyone! It is amazing! i loved how the author took you through the motions of love. i really loved how I could feel the joy, and awkwardness, and other feelings with the characters. I wish the book could have been longer. i would love to know what happens

Internal anguish so well described that it makes for a surprisingly gripping read.

A compilation of six short stories, but the one that attracted me to the book was "Family Happiness" because it was featured prominently in the books influential for Christopher McCandless - who Jon Krakauer wrote about in his book "Into the Wild". Though i've studied Russian History, this was actually my first book written by Tolstoy. A new experience for me - the rigid, almost staccato prose. The story "Family Happiness" is not at all what I'd expected, but I'm glad I read it. Written from the

Love family happiness because the characters were so well written. The interactions between the characters and the situations they got involved in, lead to real life consequences - no fairy tale ending here. All this ...GREATNESS... made this short story unforgettable, even 5/7 years after closing the cover.

What a beautiful little compilation of stories! This is Tolstoy at his best. He paints scenes of Russian life so beautifully that it is hard not to become immersed in the story. Yet every story has its own message to resound with readers on a deeper level. I truly did not get a true sense of Tolstoy's mastery of writing from reading Anna Karenina, so I am very glad I got a copy of this! I liked every story better than the last, so I cannot pick a favourite but I would recommend them all!