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Tolstoy

Tolstoy

Troyat, Henri
Amphoux, Nancy

Paperback

Series: Grove Great Lives

Literary FiguresRussian History

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0802137687
ISBN13: 9780802137685
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 18 2001
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.18
Height: 1.56 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

This . . . biography of [Tolstoy] is the fullest, most objective, and the liveliest . . . the story of his life reads like a novel. -Raymond Mortimer, The Sunday Times (London)

In this definitive portrait of one of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared: Literature is rubbish. Yet his titanic personality and the astonishing range of his talents and interests made him, as an author and as a strange self-proclaimed prophet, one of the undisputed literary giants of the nineteenth century. From his famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.

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