Tolstoy Remembered
Author : Tatʹi︠a︡na Lʹvovna Sukhotina-Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
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Tolstoy Remembered by His Son
Author : graf Sergeĭ Lʹvovich Tolstoĭ
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 1962
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Tolstoy
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0151014388
Book Description
Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but also against traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this exceptional biography, Bartlett delivers an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has been discovered by a new generation of readers.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
Author : Nina Sankovitch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062092162
Book Description
“NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us Catalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a greatbook every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition ofGretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’sA Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’ssoul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss,hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives.
Tolstoy
Author : Rosamund Bartlett
Publisher : HMH
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547545878
Book Description
This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Tolstoy
Author : Ernest Joseph Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317668898
Book Description
Tolstoy’s fame as one of the world’s greatest novelists has never been in doubt, but the importance of his views on the social, moral and religious issues of his time is not so widely recognised. This study, first published in 1973, presents an introduction to the historical and cultural background of Tolstoy’s lifetime, then going on to consider the major events of his developing personality as a writer and reformer. As well as considering the famous novels and literary criticism, Simmons treats his educational theories and practice, famine relief work, spiritual crises and religious, social and moral beliefs, as reflected in controversial writings such as What I Believe, What Then Must We Do? and The Kingdom of God Is Within You. He also investigates Tolstoy’s involvement in government, war and revolution, and the relevance of his reformist views in the contemporary world.
New Essays on Tolstoy
Author : Malcolm Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521169219
Book Description
This collection of essays focuses on Tolstoy's writing, thinking and translation problems to commemorate his 150th year of his birth.
Leo Tolstoy
Author : Daniel Moulin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441119213
Book Description
How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences there incited his life-long inquiry into the meaning and purpose of religion, literature, art and life itself. In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the course of Tolstoy's educational thought, and how it relates to Tolstoy's fiction and other writings. It begins with his experience of being a child and adolescent, incorporates his travels in Europe, the experimental school, his literature, and his views on art, philosophy, and spirituality. Throughout, the relevance and impact of Tolstoy's thinking on education are translated into applicable theory for today's education students.
Tolstoy
Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393321227
Book Description
In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's 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 Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life, and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia. He also breaks new ground in recreating the world that shaped the great novelist's life and art--the turmoil of ideas and politics in nineteenth-century Russia and the incredible literary renaissance that made Tolstoy's work possible. "Admirable. . . . Absorbing. . . . Superb."--Anthony Burgess "Stands as a model of the biographer's art: intelligent and opinionated, yet judicious--and, what's more, deliciously readable."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Tolstoy on Aesthetics
Author : H.O. Mounce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351787381
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001: Tolstoy's view of art is discussed in most courses in aesthetics, particularly his main text What is Art? He believed that the importance of art lies not in its purely aesthetic qualities but in its connection with life, and that art becomes decadent where this connection is lost. This view has often been misconceived and its strength overlooked. This book presents a clear exposition of Tolstoy's What is Art?, highlighting the value and importance of Tolstoy's views in relation to aesthetics. Mounce considers the problems which exercised Tolstoy and explains their fundamental importance in contemporary disputes. Having viewed these problems of aesthetics as they arise in a classic work, Howard Mounce affords readers fresh insights not simply into the problems of aesthetics themselves, but also into their contemporary treatment. Students and interested readers of aesthetics and philosophy, as well as those exploring the works of Tolstoy in literature, will find this book of particular interest and will discover that reading What is Art? with attention, affords something of the excitement found in removing the grime from an oil painting - gradually from underneath there appears an authentic masterpiece.
