Tolstoy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Atlantic
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 572 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writers 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 sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoys works were the exact mirror of his life, and instead traces the roots of Tolstoys art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia. He also recreates the world that shaped the great novelists life and art - the turmoil of ideas and politics in 19th-century Russia and the literary renaissance that made Tolstoys work possible.

ISBN: 9781782390916