Tolstoy’s diaries. Volume 2, 1895-1910

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An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas,Sunday TimesVolume 2 of Tolstoy'sDiariescovers the years 1895-1910. TheseDiarieswere meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence.'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess'A model of scholarship, one of the most...
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Leo
Tolstoy - Language
- English
- Series
- Leo Tolstoy diaries and letters
- ISBN
- 9780571324064
- Release date
- 2015