Tolstoy

By: Henri Troyat

Biography & Autobiography

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...