Author: BARTLETT, ROSAMUND
Title: Tolstoy: a Russian life / Rosamund Bartlett
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011. 2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Description; xv. 544 p. [16] p. of plates: ill. geneal. tables. maps. ports.; 24 cm. Summary; Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources. including much fascinating new 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. a subject long neglected; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved. Above all. she gives us an eloquent portrait of the brilliant. maddening. and contrary man who has. once again. been discovered by a new generation of readers. Contents; Ancestors: the Tolstoys and the Volkonskys -- Aristocratic childhood -- Orphanhood -- Youth -- Landowner. gambler. officer. writer -- Literary duellist and repentant nobleman -- Husband. beekeeper. and epic poet -- Student. teacher. father -- Novelist -- Pilgrim. nihilist. muzhik -- Sectarian. anarchist. holy fool -- Elder. apostate. and tsar -- Epilogue: Patriarch of the Bolsheviks. Subjects; Tolstoy. Leo. graf. 1828-1910. Authors. Russian--19th century--Biography.Weight in Kg appr.:

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