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Tolstoy by Henri Troyat is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In this definitive portrait of one of the greatest novelists of all time, 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." Yet his titanic personality and the astonishing range of his talents and interests made him, as an author and as a strange self-proclaimed prophet, one of the undisputed literary
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henri Troyat
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802137678
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (439 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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