by A. N. Wilson · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140116311
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«Tolstoy» is the biography of Leo Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson, published by Penguin in paperback (624 pages, in English).
Wilson traces Tolstoy's life from his days of excess in Moscow and St Petersburg gambling dens and brothels to his time as an officer in the Crimean War and his later role as an enlightened landowner in tsarist Russia. He also illuminates his contradictions, such as the stormy relationship with Sofya Behrs, and offers a fresh reading of his genius.
Winner of the Whitbread Award for biography, originally published in 1988 as «Tolstoy: A Biography». The Penguin edition dates from 1989.
Aimed at readers of literary biographies and nineteenth-century Russian literature who want to delve deeper into the figure of Tolstoy.
