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Leo Tolstoy

Born

in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire

September 09, 1828

Died

November 20, 1910

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Alexander Pushkin, Henry David Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Nikolai Gogol, St ...more

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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. 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. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,889,523 ratings · 117,201 reviews · 7,941 distinct works • Similar authors

	Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 925,915 ratings — published 1878 — 3941 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 364,087 ratings — published 1869 — 245 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Ivan Ilych 4.14 avg rating — 219,724 ratings — published 1886 — 1405 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kreutzer Sonata 3.86 avg rating — 35,326 ratings — published 1889 — 640 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrection 4.17 avg rating — 28,166 ratings — published 1899 — 1193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? by Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoy 3.98 avg rating — 21,839 ratings — published 1885 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Confession 4.10 avg rating — 19,625 ratings — published 1880 — 392 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Much Land Does a Man Need? 4.11 avg rating — 18,338 ratings — published 1886 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, James Duff Duff (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 17,065 ratings — published 1886 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hadji Murád 3.85 avg rating — 15,291 ratings — published 1912 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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