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Leo Tolstoy (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Leo Tolstoy’s fiction, like that of many Russian writers, cannot be divided neatly into long fiction and short fiction. Tolstoy wrote only three full-length novels: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection. Family Happiness, The Cossacks, The Kreutzer Sonata, Hadji Murad, and the trilogy comprising Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth could be termed novellas or short novels; the distinction between the two is often ill-defined, but most readers would classify The Cossacks—the...

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