Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й] ( 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910 ) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist; his name is usually rendered into English as Leo Tolstoy , and sometimes...
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes, and a projected new edition will reach at least...
Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of...
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. Leo Tolstoy was one of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a...
Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly...
Tolstoy, Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich(1828–1910) Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy, the renowned Russian novelist, won worldwide fame as a moralist and sage for his antiecclesiastical interpretation of Christianity and fervent preaching of nonviolence. A...
TOLSTOY, LEO (1828–1910), Russian writer. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on his family's estate of Yasnaia Poliana (Bright Meadow), in Tula Province. His parents, both from the high aristocracy, died in his early boyhood. Tolstoy was a...
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Bibliography Chief Writings Of Tolstoy: Tolstoy wrote constantly and voluminously throughout his long life. The complete Soviet edition of his works, published from 1928-1959, runs to ninety volumes. Most of these are not available in English. Of those availoble the student...
Tolstoy, by Pietro Citati, translated by Raymond Rosenthal (Schocken, 265 pp., $18.95) Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger, by Richard Gustafson (Princeton, 480 pp., $29.50) TOLSTOI WAS A wealthy aristocrat, afeudal lord in a society that was still medieval. He led a privileged life,...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One is long, the other is longer. Two newly published translations of "War and Peace" have prompted renewed debate over the famed work by Leo Tolstoy. Translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose version of the Leo Tolstoy classic "Anna...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leo Tolstoy juggled multiple plotlines when writing his epic novel "War and Peace," but at least he didn't have to deal with more than 400 actors, 1,200 costumes and 79 people to get everyone dressed. That is the Metropolitan Opera's...
In the following essay, Poggioli compares Tolstoy's character and philosophical views with those of the character Alceste in Molière's play The Misanthrope.
