Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).
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Deep, heavy, and moralistic,
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Maybe the first modern novel. In `Resurrection' Tolstoy delves down deep into the disturbed psyche of his protagonist as he struggles with his decisions, his culture, and his beliefs. Like all of Tolstoy's works the book is as deep and the prose is heavy. There are times that the book reads more like a tract than a novel and there is a moral to every story. The book is interesting, too, in that I've wondered how much personal history Tolstoy wrote into it. Readers of Troyat's biography will see many familiar scenes played out here from Tolstoy's early days as a rich dandy to his later `resurrection' as a spiritual nomad.
Not quite up to par with `Anna' or `War and Peace' but a good book and a must for fans of the Great One.
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THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together: paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, filling the air with the smoke of naptha and coal-still spring was spring, even in the town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Simon Kartinkin, Countess Catherine, Law Courts, Criminal Court, Vladimir Simonson, Sophia Vasflyevna, Henry George, Civil Court, Sophia Vasilyevna, Foundling Hospital, Joan of Are, Penal Code, Petition Committee, Senator Wolf, Son of God New!
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THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together: paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, filling the air with the smoke of naptha and coal-still spring was spring, even in the town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prison cloak, woman warder, convoy officer, stinking tub, convoy soldier, prison shoes, forty roubles, rubber jacket, prison inspector, hundred roubles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simon Kartinkin, Countess Catherine, Law Courts, Criminal Court, Vladimir Simonson, Sophia Vasflyevna, Henry George, Civil Court, Sophia Vasilyevna, Foundling Hospital, Joan of Are, Penal Code, Petition Committee, Senator Wolf, Son of God New!
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- Social Statics by Herbert Spencer on page 15, and page 46
- Leo Tolstoy by Aylmer Maude in Front Matter
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