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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 4.09 avg rating — 868,420 ratings — published 1878 — 3752 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 4.16 avg rating — 337,684 ratings — published 1869 — 2528 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 4.13 avg rating — 175,959 ratings — published 1886 — 1328 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 3.87 avg rating — 31,363 ratings — published 1889 — 620 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 — 25,353 ratings — published 1899 — 1168 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 3.99 avg rating — 19,020 ratings — published 1885 — 225 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 — 16,929 ratings — published 1880 — 369 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 — 15,448 ratings — published 1886 — 128 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? 4.11 avg rating — 13,683 ratings — published 1886 — 85 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 — 13,606 ratings — published 1912 — 402 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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