Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

by Zorin, Andreĭ, (Andreĭ Leonidovich)

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When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together Tolstoy's life, offering an account of the novelist's deepest feelings and motives, and a brilliant i…

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  • Full title :Leo Tolstoy / Andrei Zorin.

Summary

When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post. At that time he managed only the first. The writer's momentous life would be full of forced breaks and abrupt departures, from the death of his beloved parents to an abandonment of the social class into which he had been born. Andrei Zorin skillfully pieces together Tolstoy's life, offering an account of the novelist's deepest feelings and motives, and a brilliant interpretation of his major works, including the celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Reaktion books
  • Place of Publication:London, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

  • Description:223 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1789141990, 9781789141993
  • oclc:on1104471776
  • LC Classification:PG3385
  • Dewey Decimal:891.73/3

Table of Contents

An ambitious orphan -- A married genius -- A lonely leader -- A fugitive celebrity.

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Biographies Biography Novelists, Russian Novelists, Russian -- Biography. -- 19t… Tolstoy, Leo,, graf

Writers

Zorin, Andreĭ, (Andreĭ Leonidovich)

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