Tolstoy |
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| Author:
| Troyat, Henri |
| Translator:
| Amphoux, Nancy |
| Series title: | Grove Great Lives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8021-3768-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.
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." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.