Category: Biographies
If any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views, clearly and finely as they are conceived and expanded....
If any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, s...
2. Part 2“large, fresh, rich, generous, delightful nature.” “When I had ended my work ‘Anna Karènina,’” said Tolstoy in “My Confession” (1879-82), “my despair reached such a height that...
3. Part 3The house itself is a plain white rectangular two-storied building of stuccoed brick, and it would be hard to imagine a simpler and less pretentious place than the home in which...