Tolstoy by Henri Troyat

Tolstoy

Henri Troyat with Nancy Amphoux (Translator)

896 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective slow-paced
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Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." Fro...

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