Author: Henri Troyat Year: 1965 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Classic Culture: Russia
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ISBNs: 9780802137685 0802137687 |
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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."
From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.
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