Tolstoy
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." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his...
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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." From Tolstoy's 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802137685 (0802137687)
ASIN: 802137687
Publish date: January 18th 2001
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 896
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Biography Memoir
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