Tolstoy's Reading List

[Kirsten]

Maria Popova of Brain Pickings posted a blog posting on Tolstoy's reading list. From the posting:

"Shortly after his fiftieth birthday, Leo Tolstoy succumbed to a deep spiritual crisis and decided to pull himself out by finding the meaning of life. He did so largely by reading voraciously across the world’s major philosophical and religious traditions, discovering great similarities in how they dealt with the truth of the human spirit. He was also, as any great writer, an insatiable reader of literature, which he wove together into A Calendar of Wisdom — the proto-Tumblr he spent the final decades of his life assembling."

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/...

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Thanks, Kirsten. Interesting list.

[Christine]

Very interesting list! Thanks for posting.

Mary wrote: "I read a biography of Tolstoy. He was a very intelligent and complicated man."

I would like to read a biography of Tolstoy. Do you remember the title of the one you read?

[Alice]

Thank you so much for the list!

Mary wrote: "I read a biography of Tolstoy. He was a very intelligent and complicated man."

I'm interested in reading it too, if you remember the title?