Tolstoy: A Russian Life
by BARTLETT, ROSAMUND
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1846681383
- ISBN 13
- 9781846681387
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“Magisterial sweep and scale.”— The Independent (UK) In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, with a growing international following, and more revered than the tsar. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this, the first biography of Tolstoy in more than twenty years, Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including much fascinating material made available since the collapse of the Soviet Union. She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived. Above all, Bartett gives us an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has once again been discovered by a new generation of readers.
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- Green Ink Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 636961
- Title
- Tolstoy: A Russian Life
- Author
- BARTLETT, ROSAMUND
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1846681383
- ISBN 13
- 9781846681387
- Publisher
- Profile Books(gb)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- In Very Good Dustwrapper
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