Best Biography Of Tolstoy - April 2024

Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in sco... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400077869
• ASIN: 1400077869
• ISBN: 1400077869
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Novels and Novellas (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 12)

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Childhood - Boyhood - Youth - Family Happiness - The Cos... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01IMMB2OK
• ASIN: B01IMMB2OK
• Manufacturer: Book House Publishing

Leo Tolstoy: The Best Works

This ebook compiles Leo Tolstoy's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and essays such as "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "A Confession", "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that list... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0792DK9SP
• ASIN: B0792DK9SP
• Manufacturer: Pandora's Box

The Kingdom of God is Within You

"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" is Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus of philosophy and religious thought. The book is cited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the chief influences in the development of his philosophy of non-violence. Tolstoy takes the reader to the heart of the message of Jesus Christ, laying aside the common dogmas of the church in favor of a literal understanding of Christ's teachings. This brings his philosophy to one of strict non-violence and a complete overhaul of the structures of modern society. The work is a masterpiece in the realm of Christianity.

• ASIN: 1537188488
• ASIN: 1537188488
• ISBN: 1537188488
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

• ASIN: B005ENZ5I0
• ASIN: B005ENZ5I0
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King.“I have tried, as far as possible using the words of the authors themselves, to explain their craft, aiming to take readers on a journey into the concerns, techniques, tricks, flaws, and, occasionally, obsessions of our most luminous writers.”—from the Preface Behind every acclaimed work ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812998308
• ASIN: 0812998308
• ISBN: 0812998308
• Brand: Random House Inc
• Manufacturer: Random House

What Is Art? (Penguin Classics)

This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a religious one. Ultimately, he concludes, art must be a force for good, for the progress and improvement of mankind.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global books... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140446427
• ASIN: 0140446427
• ISBN: 9780140446425
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Confession

• ASIN: 0393314758
• ASIN: 0393314758
• ISBN: 0393314758
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Penguin Classics)

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings--on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality--reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession,' 'Religion and Morality,' 'What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?,' and 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence.'For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout histor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140444734
• ASIN: 0140444734
• ISBN: 9780140444735
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWar and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rosto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400079985
• ASIN: 1400079985
• ISBN: 1400079985
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi (New York Review Books Classics)

Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace. In this selection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide range of subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159017996X
• ASIN: 159017996X
• ISBN: 159017996X
• Brand: New York Review of Books
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

• ASIN: 0061253170
• ASIN: 0061253170
• ISBN: 9780061253171
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

War and Peace: Tie-In Edition to Major New BBC Dramatisation

Tolstoy’s beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. Following the rise and fall of some of society’s most influential families, this truthful and poignant epic is as relevant today as ever.

• ASIN: 184990846X
• ASIN: 184990846X
• ISBN: 9781849908467
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: BBC Books

20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......

This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Anonymous: “Beowulf”Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh”Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan”Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita”Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars”Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes”Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”Carroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking Glass”Chesterton, G. K.: “The Man Who Was Thursday”Dickens, Charles: “A Christmas Carol”Dunsany, Lord: “The King of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07QJZL97H
• ASIN: B07QJZL97H
• Manufacturer: Athenaeum Classics

Nikolai Gogol: The Best Works

This ebook compiles Nikolai Gogol's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and plays such as "Taras Bulba", "Dead Souls", "The Nose", "The Viy", "The Government Inspector" and "The Overcoat".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0792JRCD3
• ASIN: B0792JRCD3
• Manufacturer: Pandora's Box

Sophia Tolstoy : A Biography

A sympathetic profile draws on Leo Tolstoy's wife's unpublished memoir and reveals how the classic author's most devout followers actively suppressed the truth about Sophia's dedication to her husband and his work, presenting her as

• UPC: 16759807
• Rating: 5.0

Tolstoy a Biography

The award-winning author of God's Funeral explores the contradictions and improbabilities of the renowned novelist's character, using new close readings in Russian of much of his work and reexamining the historical context in which it

• UPC: 1064522
• Rating: 4.0

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy - eBook

“[A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understood exactly the high price she would have to pay for

• UPC: 152279375
• Rating: 3.667

A Third Testament : A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky

Formerly published: Farmington, PA: Plough Pub. House,

• UPC: 2551211
• Rating: 2.0

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

The first accessible translation of Sofia Tolstoy's diaries chronicles in extraordinary detail Sofia's marriage to the legendary man of letters, all set against the backdrop of Russia's turbulent history at the turn of the 20th

• UPC: 13920669
• Rating: 3.667

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair - eBook

“NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzedby the loss

• UPC: 409728833
• Color: Purple
• Rating: 3.607

Leo Tolstoy: Biography of the Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina - eBook

ABOUT THE BOOK Leo Tolstoy is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the western canon. His major worksWar and Peace and Anna Karenina are frequently cited as among the most important

• UPC: 483667043

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more - eBook

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is

• UPC: 579577999

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Gogol and many more - eBook

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Gogol and many more” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is

• UPC: 180044051

Leo Tolstoy: The Best Works - eBook

This ebook compiles Leo Tolstoy's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and essays such as "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "A Confession", "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"

• UPC: 714279133