There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
- Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian novelist and philosopher
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War and Peace becomes shorter and sweeter - Theage.co,.au
That, however, is now to change with the emergence of a slimmed down version of the literary classic with a happier conclusion. ...
LEO TOLSTOY Biography - Notable Biographies
Nikolay, Tolstoy's eldest brother, visited him at in 1848 in Yasnaya Polyana while on leave from military service in the Caucasus. Leo greatly loved his brother, and when he asked him to join him in the south, Tolstoy agreed. After a long journey, he reached the mountains of the Caucasus, where he sought to join the army as a Junker, or gentleman-volunteer. Tolstoy's habits on a lonely outpost consisted of hunting, drinking, sleeping, chasing the women, and occasionally fighting. During the long lulls he first began to write. In 1852 he sent the autobiographical sketch Childhood to the leading journal of the day, the Contemporary. Nikolai Nekrasov, its editor, was ecstatic, and when it was published (under Tolstoy's initials), so was all of Russia. Tolstoy then began writing The Cossacks (finished in 1862), an account of his life in the outpost. ...
Ur-story - Tolstoy's Ilych - Wisdom of the West (Blog)
"In the great building of the Law Courts..." sounds like the opening line of a Kafka story, a parable of the unfathomable enigma of life. But no; it is the opening of Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. We soon discover that someone named Ivan Ilych has died. Who is he? Why should we care? ...
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