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Author Name: Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 1828 – November 20 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
 -by Leo Tolstoy

Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, ... Read More

   
Anna Karenina
 -by Leo Tolstoy

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the moving story of people wh... Read More

   
Classic short stories
 -by Leo Tolstoy
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