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    Tolstoy on Shakespeare. A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
    Tolstoy on Shakespeare. A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
    Tolstoy on Shakespeare. A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
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    Tolstoy on Shakespeare. A Critical Essay on Shakespeare

    By Leo Tolstoy

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    Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and #40;1828-1910 and #41; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth and #40;1852-1856 and #41;. They tell of a rich landowner and #39;s son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and #40;1869 and #41; and Anna Karenina and #40;1877 and #41;. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You and #40;1894 and #41;. During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare is a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all. Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAegitas
    Release dateNov 11, 2021
    ISBN9780369405753
    Tolstoy on Shakespeare. A Critical Essay on Shakespeare
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Tula, near Moscow. His parents, who both died when he was young, belonged to the Russian nobility, and to the end of his life Tolstoy remained conscious of his aristocratic status. His novels, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ are literary classics and he is revered as one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1910 at the age of 82.

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