num_pages: 98
description: With immense skill and subtlety, John Stewart Collis examines the intricacies of Tolstoy’s character. Count Leo Tolstoy was a man of great complexity whose life was dogged by spiritual crises. Collis explores the genius of Tolstoy’s masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and examines Tolstoy’s reasons for becoming an extreme rationalist and moralist in later life. This finely worked account is an enlightening and compelling study of a world-famous Russian novelist.
language: English
title: Leo Tolstoy
titlecomplete: Leo Tolstoy
publisher: House of Stratus