Tolstoy

By: Henri Troyat

Published January 18th 2001 by Grove Press (first published 1965)

Category: Biography

Pages: 896 pages

ISBN: 9780802137685

Description:
Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.