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Leo Tolstoy


Born
in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire
September 09, 1828

Died
November 20, 1910

Genre

Influences


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

Average rating: 4.09 · 1,905,038 ratings · 118,655 reviews · 7,983 distinct worksSimilar authors
Anna Karenina

4.10 avg rating — 931,663 ratings — published 1878 — 3946 editions
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War and Peace

4.17 avg rating — 365,866 ratings — published 1869 — 29 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych

4.14 avg rating — 223,678 ratings — published 1886 — 339 editions
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The Kreutzer Sonata

3.86 avg rating — 35,598 ratings — published 1889 — 12 editions
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Resurrection

4.17 avg rating — 28,376 ratings — published 1899 — 13 editions
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İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?

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3.98 avg rating — 22,118 ratings — published 1885 — 228 editions
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A Confession

4.10 avg rating — 19,826 ratings — published 1880 — 392 editions
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

4.11 avg rating — 18,646 ratings — published 1886 — 98 editions
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The Death of Ivan Ilych and...

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4.12 avg rating — 17,166 ratings — published 1886 — 5 editions
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Семейное счастие

3.91 avg rating — 15,205 ratings — published 1859 — 378 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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La Guerre et la Paix I Wojna i pokój. Tom III i IV
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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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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy  (?)
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 964 page, pub. 1877
 
  51 votes, 21.1%

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton pub 1920, 293 pages
 
  46 votes, 19.0%

 
  35 votes, 14.5%

 
  33 votes, 13.6%

 
  27 votes, 11.2%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin pub 1899, 195 pages
 
  26 votes, 10.7%

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