The Alchemist (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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Count Lev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Vasnaya Polyana in the Russian province of Tula in 1828. He inherited the family title aged 19, quit university and after a period of the kind of dissolute aristocratic life so convincingly portrayed in his later novels, joined the army, where he started to write. Travels in Europe opened him to western ideas, and he returned to his family estates to live as a benign landowner. In 1862 he married Sofia Behr, who bore him 13 children. He expressed his increasingly subversive, but devout, views through prolific work that culminated in the immortal novels of his middle years, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Beloved in Russia and with a worldwide following, but feared by the Tsarist state and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, he died in 1910.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781411471016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1411471016 |
| Title | The Alchemist (SparkNotes Literature Guide) |
| Author | Sparknotes |
| Series | Sparknotes Literature Guide Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Spark |
| Year published | 2014-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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