Leo Tolstoy

Born

in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Federation

September 09, 1828

Died

November 20, 1910

Genre

Fiction, Religion

Influences

Alexander Pushkin, Henry David Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Nikolai Gogol, St ...more

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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; 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 social reformer.

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	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translation), Aylmer Maude (Translation) 4.01 avg rating — 436,428 ratings — published 1877 — 1313 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 by Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford (editor), Aylmer Maude (translator) 4.10 avg rating — 174,267 ratings — published 1865 — 894 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 by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 49,768 ratings — published 1886 — 350 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 by Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen (Translator), Doris Lessing (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 11,994 ratings — published 1889 — 221 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 by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), Aylmer Maude (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 10,964 ratings — published 1899 — 363 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, Hugh McLean (Afterword) 4.08 avg rating — 9,098 ratings — published 1865 — 86 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
	Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 5,223 ratings — published 1852 — 2 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 Murad 3.85 avg rating — 4,927 ratings — published 1904 — 170 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 Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Constantine (Translator), Cynthia Ozick (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 4,197 ratings — published 1862 — 159 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 4.06 avg rating — 4,176 ratings — published 1882 — 106 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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Anna Karenina 8 volumes (8 books)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Война и мир (4 books)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (1 book)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina 3 volumes (3 books)
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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

tags: family, first-sentence

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

tags: perfection

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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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Mother by Maxim Gorky

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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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