Description
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia, and breaks new ground in re-creating the world that shaped the great novelist's life and art-the turmoil of ideas and politics in nineteenth-century Russia and the incredible literary renaissance that made Tolstoy's work possible.
Author: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/2001
Pages: 626
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780393321227
ISBN10: 0393321223
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union