Tolstoy, Leo
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 fro...
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Tolstoy, Leo
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 ra...
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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 Ch...
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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 ...
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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 literatur...
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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...
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In the following review of Confession, Hubbard praises Tolstoy's genuine religious faith and honesty, but laments that his religious epiphany may have cut short his career as a fiction writer.
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Mann was a German novelist and short story writer. In the following essay, he records his impressions of Tolstoy's philosophy.
He had the stature of the nineteenth century, this giant, who bore...
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In the following essay, Fausset examines evidence of Tolstoy's philosophical convictions in his fiction.
During the War a writer in a Sunday paper declared that 'we're all Tolstoy...
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In the following essay, Rahv assesses existentialism in Tolstoy's works, noting that Tolstoy was "the last of the unalienated artists. "
The art of Tolstoy is of such irresistible...
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In the following essay, Poggioli compares Tolstoy's character and philosophical views with those of the character Alceste in Molière's play The Misanthrope.
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It is well known that ...
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In the following essay, Stepun discusses the effects of religious conversion on Tolstoy's personal life.
Anyone undertaking a discussion of Tolstoy should bear in mind the words of his wife, wh...
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In the following essay, Spence argues that at the time of his conversion, Tolstoy was caughtbetween the extremes of suicide and asceticism to resolve his existential dilemmas.
Tolstoy's ideals ...
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In the following essay, Tsanoff considers Tolstoy as a significant Christian leader in twentieth-century thought.
The conventional, the ordinary, produces slight impression on us, nor do we feel drawn...
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In the following essay, Simmons presents an overview of Tolstoy's philosophical writings.
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When Leo Tolstoy and his three brothers were children they used to play a game which had been started...
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In the following essay, Kaufmann contrasts the political and philosophical views of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
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It is customary to think of Tolstoy as a very great novelist who wrote War and Peace and A...
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In the following essay, Farrar assesses Tolstoy's religious convictions as sincere and worthy of consideration, but believes Tolstoy exaggerated the degree to which the Christian world has misi...
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In the following essay, Larkin examines how Tolstoy's beliefs influenced his use of literary realism.
Tolstoy and the Human Condition
Tolstoy sits uneasily in any assemblage of Realists. He des...
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In the following essay, Matual argues that the experiences of Ivan Ilitch in The Death of Ivan Ilitch are a fictional parallel to Tolstoy's spiritual crisis in his Confession.
In the late 1870&...
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In the following essay, Farrar examines the events leading up to Tolstoy's religious conversion.
But few men have ventured to publish to the world the full confession of their inmost lives, to ...
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Howells was an American novelist and essayist. In the following essay, he discusses the influence of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical writings on his own works and thought.
I come now, tho...
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In the following essay, Maude provides an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical works.
From his boyhood upwards, both when he listened to the still, small voice within, and when he ...
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James was an American philosopher best known for his philosophy of pragmatism. In the following essay, he examines the emotional crisis that led to Tolstoy's revelations as recounted in his Con...
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In the following essay, Lee examines the major tenets of Tolstoy's philosophy and the ways in which it exemplifies his asceticism.
In his religious and philosophical writings, Count Tolstoi wou...
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In the following essay, Maude briefly discusses the impact of Tolstoy's Confession immediately following the book's publication.
Few books have created so much surprise when they were pr...
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Tolstoy's' Children
Prompt: Compare and Contrast characters that most and least resemble the authors' personal life and beliefs.
When to adults love each other and willing to take the risk of sex ...
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Tom Neuschafer
Ms. Gardner
English 10 Honors
4 February 2001
Leo Tolstoy Biography
It is said that one individual is simply not ca...
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Tolstoy, Leo
Tolstoy, Leo
Tolstoy, Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich (1828–1910)
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy
