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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


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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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,728,718 ratings · 99,982 reviews · 7,287 distinct works • Similar authors
Anna Karenina
4.09 avg rating — 873,314 ratings — published 1878 — 3787 editions
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War and Peace
4.16 avg rating — 340,368 ratings — published 1869 — 2526 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
4.13 avg rating — 179,534 ratings — published 1886 — 1328 editions
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The Kreutzer Sonata
3.87 avg rating — 31,779 ratings — published 1889 — 619 editions
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Resurrection
4.16 avg rating — 25,601 ratings — published 1899 — 1175 editions
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İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
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3.99 avg rating — 19,267 ratings — published 1885 — 227 editions
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A Confession
4.10 avg rating — 17,181 ratings — published 1880 — 366 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and...
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4.12 avg rating — 15,563 ratings — published 1886 — 125 editions
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
4.11 avg rating — 13,972 ratings — published 1886 — 84 editions
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Hadji Murád
3.86 avg rating — 13,801 ratings — published 1912 — 413 editions
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“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
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“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
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January 2016 Short Story Read

 
  28 votes, 20.4%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages
 
  22 votes, 16.1%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages
 
  19 votes, 13.9%

 
  17 votes, 12.4%

1945, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 87 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.8%

 
  11 votes, 8.0%

 
  9 votes, 6.6%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.1%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1903, To Build A Fire by Jack London, 32 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

1886, Kholstomer by Leo Tolstoy, 56 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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