Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) is regarded as one of the greatest Russian writers of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. He is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
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The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions)
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of…
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The Death Ivan Ilych and other stories (riverrun editions)
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of…
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Hadji Murad and other stories (riverrun editions)
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of…
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Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)
'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface…