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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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	Anna Karenina 4.08 avg rating — 802,432 ratings — published 1878 — 621 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 4.15 avg rating — 311,931 ratings — published 1867 — 4139 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 4.12 avg rating — 141,585 ratings — published 1886 — 16 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 3.88 avg rating — 27,238 ratings — published 1889 — 641 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 4.16 avg rating — 22,704 ratings — published 1899 — 511 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 4.01 avg rating — 16,281 ratings — published 1885 — 237 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 — 14,256 ratings — published 1880 — 387 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 — 14,105 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 3.86 avg rating — 11,779 ratings — published 1912 — 398 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? by Leo Tolstoy, Boris Dralyuk (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 10,771 ratings — published 1886 — 18 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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