Tolstoy

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Tolstoy 'Nothing less than this magnificent, massive, 700-page biography could even begin to do justice to one of the most c'omplex, baffling and grand men that ever lived ... a masterly book. M. Troyat would have to be invented if he did not exist as the ideál biographer' - Sunday Telegraph 'Russian by birth and Parisian by education, Prix Goncourt winner and Academician, Henri Troyat has used somé three hundred thousand words to put all previous Western biographies in parenthesis. With a Frenchman's palate for the dialectical he follows Tolstoy's conscious hypocrisies and swerving sense of mission with extraordinary intelligence and sympathy. His Tolstoy is present like Tolstoy's Prince Andrey in War and Peace: "his slightest gesture resounds in the consciousness of others" ' - The Times ( 'This latest biography of him is alsó the fullest, the most objective, and the liveliest. . . the story of his life reads like a növel, but by the author of The Brothers Karamazov not of War and... Tovább

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Tolstoy 'Nothing less than this magnificent, massive, 700-page biography could even begin to do justice to one of the most c'omplex, baffling and grand men that ever lived ... a masterly book. M. Troyat would have to be invented if he did not exist as the ideál biographer' - Sunday Telegraph 'Russian by birth and Parisian by education, Prix Goncourt winner and Academician, Henri Troyat has used somé three hundred thousand words to put all previous Western biographies in parenthesis. With a Frenchman's palate for the dialectical he follows Tolstoy's conscious hypocrisies and swerving sense of mission with extraordinary intelligence and sympathy. His Tolstoy is present like Tolstoy's Prince Andrey in War and Peace: "his slightest gesture resounds in the consciousness of others" ' - The Times ( 'This latest biography of him is alsó the fullest, the most objective, and the liveliest. . . the story of his life reads like a növel, but by the author of The Brothers Karamazov not of War and Peace; and M. Troyat has told it with exemplary skill' - Raymond Mortimer in the Sunday Times PELICAN BIOGRAPHIES To a unique degree good biography brings history to life. This new series aims to bring together somé of the best modern 'lives' of notable men and women of all periods and in all spheres: somé can be classed as definitive, all are both readable and authoritative. Literary biography figures largely in the series (with lives of Tolstoy, Dickens, Mark Twain, Kipling, Conrad, Wells, Balzac and Baudelaire), but biographies of monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and scientists, artists, composers and others will alsó be included. The cover shows a detail of a portrait of Tolstoy by I. Kramskoy (Novosti Press Agency) For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. or Canada Vissza