Leo Tolstoy

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born

September 09, 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Federation

died

November 20, 1910

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

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also: Lew Tolstoj, Lew Tolstoi, Leon Tolstoi, Leo Tolstoi

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой), commonly referred to in English as Leo (Lyof, Lyoff) Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.

As a fiction writer, Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonvio...more

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Books by Leo Tolstoy

Average rating: 3.97 · 175,346 ratings · 13,456 reviews · 616 distinct works

	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack (Translator), Priscilla Meyer (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 94,548 ratings — published 1869 — 42 editions	My rating:
	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford (editor), Aylmer Maude (translator) 4.02 avg rating — 44,723 ratings — published 1864 — 70 editions	My rating:
	The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 15,210 ratings — published 1886 — 164 editions	My rating:
	The Kreutzer Sonata 3.89 avg rating — 2,628 ratings — published 1889 — 69 editions	My rating:
	Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 2,392 ratings — published 1899 — 117 editions	My rating:
	The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Constantine (Translator), Cynthia Ozick (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 1863 — 43 editions	My rating:
	Hadji Murad 3.86 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 1912 — 38 editions	My rating:
	Childhood; Boyhood; Youth by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1964 — 27 editions	My rating:
	A Confession 3.97 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 1882 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Great Short Works by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 641 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change , tolstoy

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty , delusion , goodness , lies , self-deception , wisdom

1,557 people liked it

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational , life , work

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What play would you like to read in September?

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

9 votes, 42.9%

A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev

5 votes, 23.8%

The Inspector-General by Nikolai Gogol

3 votes, 14.3%

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

3 votes, 14.3%

The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy

1 vote, 4.8%

21 total votes

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