Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
"This . . . biography of [Tolstoy] is the fullest, most objective, and the liveliest . . . the story of his life reads like a novel." -Raymond Mortimer, The Sunday Times (London)
In this definitive portrait of one of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared: "Literature is rubbish." Yet his titanic personality and the astonishing range of his talents and interests made him, as an author and as a strange self-proclaimed prophet, one of the undisputed literary giants of the nineteenth century. From his famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802137685 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802137687 |
| Title | Tolstoy |
| Author | Henri Troyat |
| Series | Grove Great Lives |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2001-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 896 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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