Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880

by Jeffrey N. Cox, Donna Tussing Orwin, Larry J. Reynolds

Book Overview

"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks , War and Peace , and Anna Karenina . Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069913
• ISBN13: 9780691069913
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"