Tolstoy's letters

by Leo Tolstoy

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Professor Christian heeft uit de duizenden brieven van Tolstoi die bewaard zijn gebleven er 608 geselecteerd en vertaald. Inleidingen bij de brieven geven informatie over al Tolstois correspondenten. Ook is het boek uitgebreid van noten voorzien.
Tolstoi heeft een interessant leven geleid. Hij was van goede afkomst en heeft nooit onder geldgebrek geleden. In zijn jonge jaren diende hij bij het leger. Zijn jeugd en dienstjaren diende als stof voor zijn eerste romans. Tolstoi werd beroemd door de publikatie van "Oorlog en vrede *****". Op latere leeftijd hield Tolstoi zich vooral bezig met de vraag hoe men dient te leven.
Dit brievenboek is het meest interessante brievenboek dat ik ooit heb gelezen. Uitstekend te lezen in plaats van of als show more extra naast een biografie. show less
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Leo Tolstoy
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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Russia. He is usually referred to as Leo Tolstoy. He was a Russian author who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several show more novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. Tolstoy had a profound moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870's which he outlined in his work, A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas of nonviolent resistance which he shared in his works The Kingdom of God is Within You, had a profund impact on figures such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. On September 23, 1862 Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs. She was the daughter of a court physician. They had 13 children, eight of whom survived childhood. Their early married life allowed Tolstoy much freedom to compose War and Peace and Anna Karenina with his wife acting as his secretary and proofreader. The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Soviet Union. Leo Tolstoy's relatives and descendants moved to Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo train station, after a day's rail journey south on November 20, 1910 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 on the family estate of Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula province. He married in 1862 & was the father of 13 children. Tolstoy managed the estate of Yasnaya Polyana & ran its peasant schools, while writing his great novels, "War & Peace" (1869) & "Anna Karenina" (1877). He died in 1910. (Publisher Provided) show less

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Tolstoy's letters 1828-1910
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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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891.7 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages
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PG3379 .A2 .E5 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870 Tolstoi
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