Tolstoy
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Tolstoy: Plays
By graf Leo TolstoyThe creation and fate of Tolstoy's next play , The Fruits of Enlightenment , were in marked contrast to The Realm of Darkness . In 1889 Tolstoy's eldest daughter asked her father to write a play to be performed at home by her friends ...
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Tolstoy: 1894-1910
By graf Leo Tolstoyin the case of an individual , Tolstoy calls Fedorov's excessively optimistic system into question . Although a recognition of Tolstoy's use of the intertexts cited above is vital to an understanding of The Living Corpse , there is ...
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Tolstoy: What is Art?
By L.N. TolstoyThe essay still has power to challenge and provoke, for it was written by a giant who took art seriously while western civilisation toyed with it as a mere pastime. For Tolstoy, art was as natural and as necessary for humankind as speech.
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Tolstoy: Death of Ivan Ilyich
By L.N. TolstoyIn this tale he deals with the subject of death, which for civilised people of our time has become a taboo. Before opening this book the reader should be warned: this is strong meat, not to be tasted by the squeamish.
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Tolstoy: Sebastopol in May and Sebastopol in December
By L.N. TolstoyIn these stories Tolstoy's anti-war stance, so important in War and Peace and his later non-fictional works, is already clearly delineated. (The third story, Sebastopol in August, is not included in this edition.)
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Tolstoy: His Life and Works
By John Coleman KenworthyAbout the Book Titles presenting Biographies or Autobiographies about Literary personages, include authors, poets, screenwriters, journalists, and essayists ranging from the famous to the obscure.
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
By Rosamund BartlettShe 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 ...
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Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
By Anthony ThorlbyA close reading of this classic novel that explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation.
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Tolstoy
By A. N. WilsonThe award-winning author of God's Funeral explores the contradictions and improbabilities of the renowned novelist's character, using new close readings in Russian of much of his work and reexamining the historical context in which it was ...
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Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict
By Count Leo TolstoyHere, in the largest one-volume collection available, are 36 stories of war, intrigue, treachery, murder, moral turmoil, spiritual anguish, and occasional redemption.
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
By Rosamund Bartlett... most of his fellow nobles as vile parasites.81 His neighbours had soon filed a barrage of complaints about him ... ten roubles. Teachers were also paid an honorarium for contributing to the journal.82 The first issue of was published in ...
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Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky
By Janko Lavrin... a ' vaudeville of devils ' , and ' all things are lawful ' - logically at least , if not actually . Kirillov in The ... the devil : a colossal figure in comparison with which even Goethe's Mephistopheles looks like a naughty scamp who ...
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Tolstoy: His Life and Work
By Derrick LeonThis book, first published in 1944, provides a comprehensive overview of the work and life of the writer and philosopher Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
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Tolstoy: Literary Fragments, Letters and Reminiscences Not Previously Published
By graf Leo TolstoyTolstoy: Literary Fragments, Letters and Reminiscences Not Previously Published
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Tolstoy: A Russian Life
By Rosamund BartlettPraise for TOLSTOY "Rosamund Bartlett's new biography conveys Tolstoy to me more vividly than any biography I have read.