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"You will see war not as a beautiful, orderly and gleaming formation, with music and beaten drums but war in its authentic expression as blood, suffering and death." In April 1855, at the age of 26, Tolstoy was commanding an artillery regiment stationed on the front line of the besieged city of Sebastopol, under constant and brutal bombardment. Tolstoy's searing dispatches from Sebastopol, during what was the most devastating siege in history, would give the Russian people their first glimpse of the true horrors of war, uncensored by the state. His harrowing descriptions of splintered landscapes, rotting corpses, wounded soldiers and the never-ending roar of bombs and cannon fire propelled Tolstoy to fame and enabled him to discover his true calling: not as a soldier, but as a writer. The Sebastopol Sketches, which formed the basis for many of the episodes in Tolstoy's epic, War and Peace, is simultaneously poetic and savage, remains one of the most compelling and seminal works of the 20th century."
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Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time, was born in 1828 into a prominent aristocratic family. After abandoning university, he spent a dissolute youth between Moscow and St Petersburg before joining the army, serving in the Caucasus and during the Crimean War. His wartime experiences engendered philosophies of radical pacifism, ascetic morality and Christian anarchism that have influenced countless generations. Following a journey around Europe in the early 1860s, Tolstoy married Sophie Andreyevna Behrs in 1862 and they returned to the place of his birth in the Volga, where he would spend the next 15 years writing War and Peace, Anna Karenin and A Confession. Tolstoy died of pneumonia in 1910, at the age of 82."He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!." James Joyce"When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it is easy and pleasant to be a writer What he does serves to justify all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature." Anton Chekhov" the greatest novelist who ever lived." Philip Hensher" the towering genius of the novel ' Howard Jacobson"
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- PublisherBarbara Ward & Associates
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1784534765
- ISBN 13 9781784534769
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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