Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789386432544
Length
250p.
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Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was thirty five, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was fifty. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament which made him world famous.
In a richly detailed and sympathetic book on the most creative years of Russia's greatest writer, Edward Crankshaw ...
