# Tolstoy

Author: Winstanley, Lilian, 1875-

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47353

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Tolstoy+Winstanley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Some fifty years ago Russian literature was practically unknown to Western Europe; by the majority of people its very existence seems to have been unsuspected; we find even so great an adventurer as Carlyle, himself guiding his countrymen to many new tracts of literary discovery, speaking of "the great silent Russians who are drilling a whole continent into obedience, but who have produced 'nothing articulate' as yet."[1] In less than thirty years from the time when Carlyle penned that sentence Russian literature had become recognised as one of the most powerful and vital in Europe; its influence, already enormous, increases every day; it is great in France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, ev...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/tolstoy-47353/chapters/8/index.md)