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 laudatory review of Tolstoy's story, the critic deems Master and Man “beautiful in conception, so masterly in development, so skillfully delicate in workmanship.”...
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In the following essay, initially published in 1904, Mikhaylovsky contrasts Tolstoy's approach to death in The Death of Ivan Ilych and Master and Man.
How does one preserve life without the ...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1932, Shestov summarizes the plot and outlines the major themes of Master and Man.
Many people, in the effort to calm themselves and dissipate the ...
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In the following essay, Trahan explores the symbolism in Master and Man, contending, “even a superficial reading reveals a certain mysterious, magic quality which suggests additional dimensions...
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In the following excerpt, Simmons regards Master and Man as a successful embodiment of Tolstoy's ideal of religious art.
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In addition to the short story, Tolstoy also devoted a substantial ...
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In the following essay, Hagan analyzes the religious symbolism found in Master and Man to better understand Tolstoy's artistic method.
Though Master and Man (1895) has long been generally re...
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In the following excerpt, Cain offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Master and Man and compares it to The Death of Ivan Ilych.
Though they too deal with conversion, the accession of illumina...
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In the following essay, Heim perceives Master and Man as a reworking of Tolstoy's earlier work, Three Deaths.
Tolstoj's stories Three Deaths [Tri smerti, 1859] and Master and Man [Xoz...
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In the following excerpt, Gustafson considers the autobiographical nature of Master and Man.
The perfect type of Tolstoy's fiction is Master and Man. This late (1895) narrative is an emblema...
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