| Tolstoy Contributor(s): Troyat, Henri (Author), Amphoux, Nancy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802137687 ISBN-13: 9780802137685 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extra-ordinary 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00051390 |
| Series: Grove Great Lives |
| Physical Information: 1.56" H x 5.98" W x 9.08" (2.18 lbs) 896 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |