Tolstoy

Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545878
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy written by Rosamund Bartlett and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Public Space Books
ISBN 13 : 9781734590760
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li written by Yiyun Li and published by Public Space Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt uncertain, War and Peace has been the novel she turns to. In March 2020, as the pandemic tightened its grip, Li and A Public Space launched #TolstoyTogether, a War and Peace book club, on Twitter and Instagram, gathering a community (that came to include writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Greenwell, and Carl Phillips) for 85 days of prompts, conversation, succor, and pleasure. It was an experience shaped not only by the time in which they read but also the slow, consistent rhythm of the reading. And the extraordinary community that gathered for a moment each day to discuss Tolstoy, history, and the role of art in a time like this. Tolstoy Together captures that moment, and offers a guided, communal experience for past and new readers, lovers of Russian literature, and all those looking for what Li identifies as "his level-headedness and clear-sightedness offer[ing] a solidity during a time of duress.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439130957
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Calendar of Wisdom written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom—author Thomas Keneally calls this book “transcendent, and that we are grateful he lived long enough to endow us with his grand inheritance.” This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in pre-revolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.

Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732632830
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.SD/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cossacks written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resurrection written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrei Zorin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142563
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Andrei Zorin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry, and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer’s momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents and tortuous courtship to a deep spiritual crisis and an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. He also made several attempts to break up with literature, but each time he returned to writing. In this original and comprehensive biography, Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together the life of one of the greatest novelists of all time. He offers both an innovative account of Tolstoy’s deepest feelings, emotions, and motives, as reflected in his personal diaries and letters, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including his celebrated novels on contemporary Russian society, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and his significant philosophical writings.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Peace written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henri Troyat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolstoy written by Henri Troyat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402711435
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy may have written some of the most expansive novels in all literature, but he also created wonderful short works, too. In a spectacularly illustrated volume that captures all the atmosphere of Tolstoy's Russia, Tolstoy scholar Donna Tussing Orwin carefully presents and annotates five of the writer's finest stories: "God Sees the Truth, But Waits," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," The Empty Drum," "The Imp and the Crust," and "Three Questions." Louise and Aylmer Maude, who knew Tolstoy personally, have translated the text.