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Description edit
Key dimensions of Tolstoy's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While the essays focus on Tolstoy's artistic production, the introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man for whom art was only one activity among many. The essays are... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Leo Tolstoy: Add a description of this character.
- Anna Karenina
- Levin
- Natasha
- James Joyce
- Pierre
- Nikolai Rostov
- Ivan Ilich
- Prince Andrei
- Nikita
- Nekhliudov
- Maslova
- Vronsky
- Rousseau
- Koni
- Marya
- Bernard Shaw
- Denisov
- Helene
- Dolokhov
- Antoine
- Masha
- Ibsen
- Aylmer Maude
- Mikhailov
- Khlopov
- Hauptmann
- Father Sergius
- Kutuzov
- Tushin
- Hadji Murat
- Gary Saul Morson
- Akim
- W. Norton
- Chekhov
- Stanislavsky
- Viii
- Lev Tolstoy
- Sergei
- Woolf
- Louise
Setting & Locations edit
- Pss
- London
- Moscow
- Sevastopol
- New York
- Russia
- Paris
- Princeton
- Kreutzer Sonata
- Childhood
- Katiusha
- Resurrection
- Austerlitz
- Siberia
- Pozdnyshev
- Tula
- Tolstoyan
- Ulysses
- Natalia Savishna
- America
- St. Petersburg
- Lucerne
- Borodino
- Europe
- Turgenev
- Laches
- Bagration
- Stendhal
- Dublin
First Sentence edit
It may seem strange to say so, but only now are readers beginning to appreciate just how great a book War and Peace really is.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Cambridge Companions to Literature. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Donna Tussing Orwin (Editor)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 891.733
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › European
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Russian
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics › Russian
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
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