La Felicidad Conyugal / Family Happines - Hardcover

by Zuzanna Celej (Illustrator), Lev Tolstoi (Author)

Masha, a seventeen-year-old orphan, lives in her family's old estate with her sister and governess. Her only respite is the visits from Sergey Mikhailich, the handsome estate administrator twice her age. Their quiet affection blossoms into love in this tender portrait of marriage and the phases of love, penned by Leo Tolstoy.

Author Biography

Zuzanna Celej is an artist who has exhibited her work in Spain, France, England, Poland, and the United States. She has also received numerous national and international awards. Zuzanna is a builder by illustrating and fabricating what has not yet been seen, composing her work on paper and with paper. When she was little, she created countless objects, gadgets, small machines, robots, articulated dolls, models of towns, houses, scenes, and so on, using all kinds of recycled, found, and treasured materials. Lev Tolstoy was a Russian author and one of the most important novelists of all time. He is especially known for his two longest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which are unanimously considered masterpieces. The son of a nobleman and a princess, Tolstoy was orphaned at a young age and went to live with aunts, who entrusted his education to private tutors. In his adolescence and youth, Tolstoy gave himself over to the debauchery of St. Petersburg, where he drank relentlessly, played cards, and frequented the company of women.