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  Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Hardback) By (author) Rosamund Bartlett

  

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  Short Description for TolstoyTolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. This title offers a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. It helps you discover a remarkable and long life in one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of Russian history, straddling the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Published: 11 November 2010
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary
  • ISBN 13: 9781846681387 ISBN 10: 1846681383
  • Sales rank: 63,051

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• Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here at the 100th anniversary of his birth is a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. A hundred years ago in November 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy died on a remote Russian railway station, attended by the world's media, taken ill as he was finally attempting to escape his decadent (as he saw it), aristocratic family life. Tolstoy has been universally recognised as a colossus of world literature whether by his contemporaries or critics as diverse as Nabokov or F.R. Leavis. In this exceptional biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many fascinating new sources which have been published about Tolstoy since the collapse of Communism to write about one of the most compelling, maddening, brilliant and contrary people who has ever lived. She and we discover a remarkable and long life in one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods of Russian history, straddling the 19th and early 20th centuries. Tolstoy spent that life rebelling - not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but against traditional education and eventually against family life, organised religion and the state.