Leo Tolstoy: Master and Man

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich, Count, And Rapoport, S (Translated By), And Kenworthy, John C (Translated By)

ISBN 10: 0146000897 / ISBN 13: 9780146000898

Published by Penguin Books, 1995

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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: good/Very good. Clean interior pages and a tight binding. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Seller Inventory # KensBooks2.0043774

Bibliographic Details

Title: Leo Tolstoy: Master and Man

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Trade paperback

Edition: Reprint.

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Synopsis:

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. -wikipedia

About the Author:

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.