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TOLSTOY'S DIARIES
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| Volume: |
Volume 1 |
| By: |
R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571324045 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571324040 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
29 January, 2015 |
| Series: |
Leo Tolstoy, Diaries and Letters |
| Description: |
Covers the years 1847-1894, 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. |
| Synopsis: |
"An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy." (D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times). Volume 1 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1847-1894 and was 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 important books to be published in recent years." (A. N. Wilson, Spectator). |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber Finds |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |