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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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Anna Karenina
4.11 avg rating — 946,175 ratings — published 1878 — 3987 editions
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War and Peace
4.17 avg rating — 370,689 ratings — published 1869 — 2612 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
4.14 avg rating — 235,170 ratings — published 1886 — 1409 editions
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The Kreutzer Sonata
3.86 avg rating — 36,486 ratings — published 1889 — 13 editions
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Resurrection
4.17 avg rating — 29,046 ratings — published 1899 — 1198 editions
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İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
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3.98 avg rating — 22,838 ratings — published 1885
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A Confession
4.10 avg rating — 20,432 ratings — published 1880 — 397 editions
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
4.11 avg rating — 19,610 ratings — published 1886 — 100 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and...
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4.12 avg rating — 17,550 ratings — published 1886 — 129 editions
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Семейное счастие
3.90 avg rating — 15,839 ratings — published 1859 — 5 editions
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La Guerre et la Paix I Война и мир. Том 2/4 Война и мир. Том 3/4 Война и мир. Том 4/4
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Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 2 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 3 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 4 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 5 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 6 of 8 Anna Karenina, Vol 7 of 8
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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.”
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“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
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