Edward Garnett (1868–1937), an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, offers here an overview of life and work of a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists, most famous by his masterpieces “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”. The author begins with Tolstoy’s early years and stories of that period, and follows his creations and life up to the Russian Revolution and Tolstoyism - the philosophical and religious views of its followers.
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