# Family Happiness

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- Book: [Family Happiness](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy/family-happiness) ([Family Happiness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy/family-happiness.md))
- Authors: [Lev Tolstoi](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4174-693-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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.