Leo Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael Scammell
Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy's first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy's emergence as a major writer. Its ... [... more]
Random House |
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world's ... [... more]
Random House |
Mary Jane Moffat
Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin. Death silences not only those it takes, but those it leaves behind: All too typically we can neither express our ... [... more]
Random House |
Ivan Goncharov
The sly, subversive side of the nineteenth-century Russian literary character -- the one which represents such a contrast to the titanic exertions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky -- was most fully realized in Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece, OBLOMOV. ... [... more]
Random House |
Alymer Maude
In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months ... [... more]
Random House |
Sonny Brewer
Sonny Brewer owns Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama, and serves as board chairman of the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts. He is the author of the novel The Poet of Tolstoy Park "The more you transform your life from the ... [... more]
Random House |
Charlotte Painter
Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nin. Edited by Mary Jane Moffat and Charlotte Painter Mary Jane Moffat and Charlotte Painter Revelations Diaries of Women [... more]
Random House |
John Ruskin
As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin's Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last ... [... more]
Random House |
Richard Uhlig
I'd love to say that I grew up reading Cervantes and Tolstoy, but I didn't. I grew up watching The Munsters and Hogan's Heroes. God, I hate to think how many hours I spent in front of the TV as a kid. I didn't become a serious reader until after ... [... more]
Random House |
Leo Tolstoy from HarperCollins Publishers
Leo Tolstoy, Iconic and celebrated 19th-century Russian author of fiction classics, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina. [... more]
Harper Collins |
|
