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: 4.1 · 1,978,131 ratings · 127,800 reviews · 8,599 distinct worksSimilar authors
Anna Karenina

4.11 avg rating — 956,372 ratings — published 1878 — 4062 editions
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War and Peace

4.17 avg rating — 374,371 ratings — published 1868 — 2638 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych

4.14 avg rating — 246,681 ratings — published 1886 — 1477 editions
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The Kreutzer Sonata

3.86 avg rating — 37,447 ratings — published 1889 — 668 editions
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Resurrection

4.17 avg rating — 29,477 ratings — published 1899 — 13 editions
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İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?

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3.98 avg rating — 23,298 ratings — published 1885 — 227 editions
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A Confession

4.10 avg rating — 20,893 ratings — published 1880 — 416 editions
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

4.11 avg rating — 20,371 ratings — published 1886 — 100 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and...

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4.12 avg rating — 17,861 ratings — published 1886 — 4 editions
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Семейное счастие

3.90 avg rating — 16,252 ratings — published 1859 — 14 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

May 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985
 
  41 votes, 18.6%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960
 
  37 votes, 16.8%

Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages, 1815
 
  21 votes, 9.5%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856
 
  19 votes, 8.6%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980
 
  18 votes, 8.2%

 
  17 votes, 7.7%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719
 
  17 votes, 7.7%

 
  14 votes, 6.4%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages, 1899
 
  14 votes, 6.4%

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 964 pages, 1878
 
  10 votes, 4.5%

 
  7 votes, 3.2%

 
  5 votes, 2.3%

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