Lev Tolstoy In His Life
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Author | : Rosamund Bartlett |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547545878 |
This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina “should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In “an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Author | : Rosamund Bartlett |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0151014388 |
Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling not only against conventional ideas about literature and art but also against traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In this exceptional biography, Bartlett delivers an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has been discovered by a new generation of readers.
Author | : Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781907355912 |
'On Life' and 'What is religion?' were published by the Fee Age Press in England; a publishing house set up to side-step the censorship of Tolstoy in Russia, and to give him an international voice. So what is life? 'Life is the sum of functions which resist death, ' says the scientist. But is it more than that, asks Tolstoy in 'On Life' - a philosophical and religious search for an understanding of life beyond scientific formulae. For Tolstoy, the basic contradiction for humanity is this: people aim solely for their own well being, but discover along the way that their own well being depends also on the well being of others. A further discovery by such people is that decay, old age and death attend their every step. Such basic human truths are the context for Tolstoy's search for happiness, in which Buddhist, Jewish, Stoic and Christian views are considered, as well as those of science. Tolstoy believes that fear of death is merely the consciousness of the unsolved contradiction of life; a sign of a carnal or animal mentality, which mistakenly takes part of life to be the whole.Tolstoy believes that individual well-being must be renounced and replaced by our 'reasonable consciousness', which points the way to true happiness, and brings human re-birth. 'What is religion?' is a collection of articles and letters written by the mature Tolstoy of 1901 and 1902. Here is a variety of subject matter, including a book review of a German novel; Tolstoy's response to his excommunication by the church; an attack on army recruitment and training and reflections on a recent political assassination. The title piece - 'What is religion?' is the most substantial, in which Tolstoy provides the following definition: 'True religion is the establishment by man of a relation to the infinite life around him; as long as connecting his life with this infinitude and directing his conduct, is also in agreement with his reason and human knowledge.' Simon Parke, author of The One Minute Mysti
Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781560727040 |
Presents materials that reveal the essence of Tolstoy's beliefs on immortality, death, God, and the meaning of life. Contains two booklets ("About Immortality" No. 751 and "About Death" No. 752) compiled by Tolstoy comprising quotations from various philosophers explaining the meaning that death gives to life; essays explaining the actions that Tolstoy thought must be taken to grow spiritually; and finally, diary entries (translated here for the first time in English) pertaining to spiritual themes made during the last year of Tolstoy's life.
Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
"Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In mid-life, however, he underwent a deep moral and spiritual crisis that led him back to the gospels in an effort to conform his life to the spirit of Christ. This volume focuses on his "spiritual writings" - autobiographical reflections on his journey of faith, commentaries on the gospels, and essays, on the essence of Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594624377 |
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (? ? ?), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer, essayist, philosopher, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, moral thinker, and an one of the most influential members of the Tolstoy family.
Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3986775102 |
Boyhood Leo Tolstoy - This, the second novel in Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, tells of the early part of his life, when he was living happily with his family in the countryside. It also portrays his first love affair with Sonya and the tragic incident of his mother's death.
Author | : Gladkova L.V. |
Publisher | : "Издательство ""Проспект""" |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-12-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 5392097731 |
The photo album is dedicated to the life of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy – a great Russian writer. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. This book represents the history of his photos taken from 1900 to 1905 included. This period of time was full of important events in the writer’s life and in the current reality to which the writer was strongly responsive. Most photos of Lev Tolstoy published in this album were taken by amateurs, i.e. members of his family, his friends and acquaintances.
Author | : Edward A. Steiner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803293458 |
"As a professor of applied Christianity, Steiner strove to present the significance of Tolstoy's unique religious and philosophical beliefs and their effects on his work and Steiner's life. Tolstoy the Man also provides a modern audience with an intimate and interesting view of prerevolutionary Russia from within. Tolstoy's religious and social views often put him at odds with his society and were often prescient of the coming political upheaval."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Aylmer Maude |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Authors, Russian |
ISBN | : |