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An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, __Sunday Times__ Volume 2 of Tolstoy's __Diaries__ covers the years 1895-1910. These __Diaries__ were 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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Author

Leo Tolstoy & R. F. Christian

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571324064

Category

nonfiction