Leo Tolstoy


Born
in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire
September 09, 1828

Died
November 20, 1910

Genre

Influences


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

Average rating: 4.09 · 1,889,396 ratings · 117,188 reviews · 7,941 distinct worksSimilar authors
Anna Karenina

4.10 avg rating — 925,879 ratings — published 1878 — 57 editions
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War and Peace

4.17 avg rating — 364,073 ratings — published 1869 — 327 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych

4.14 avg rating — 219,698 ratings — published 1886 — 1405 editions
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The Kreutzer Sonata

3.86 avg rating — 35,324 ratings — published 1889 — 163 editions
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Resurrection

4.17 avg rating — 28,165 ratings — published 1899 — 1193 editions
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İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?

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3.98 avg rating — 21,836 ratings — published 1885 — 79 editions
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A Confession

4.10 avg rating — 19,623 ratings — published 1880 — 392 editions
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

4.11 avg rating — 18,337 ratings — published 1886 — 19 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and...

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4.12 avg rating — 17,065 ratings — published 1886 — 129 editions
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Hadji Murád

3.85 avg rating — 15,291 ratings — published 1912 — 21 editions
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy  (?)
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Polls

April 2020 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Lover by Marguerite Duras, 117 pages, 1984
 
  63 votes, 20.6%

 
  60 votes, 19.6%

 
  47 votes, 15.4%

Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy, 130 Pages ??, 1912
 
  41 votes, 13.4%

Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin, less than 26 pages, 1893
 
  37 votes, 12.1%

Fellow-Townsmen by Thomas Hardy, 88 pages, 1880
 
  30 votes, 9.8%

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok by Anonymous, 80+- pages, 1300's
 
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