Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

by Liza Knapp

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored as the father of the modern war story, as an innovator in psychological prose, and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198813937
• ISBN13: 9780198813934
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"