Tolstoy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1828-1910
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Lev Tolstoy, Sergey Tolstoy, Marya Tolstoy, Sofya Tolstoy, Alexandra Tolstoy, Vladimir Chertkov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Afanasy Fet, Ivan Turgenev
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Novelists, Russia or Russian people, 1900’s
- Locales: Russia
At the beginning of his book, A. N. Wilson inserts a lengthy chart of important dates and events in the life of Count Lev Tolstoy, with a parallel column relating them to concurrent events in Russia. Wilson, who has written more than a dozen books, including novels of manners and other biographies, thus signals the reader that his priority will not be a month-by-month, year-by-year account of his subject. So little is chronology stressed that one is at times uncertain about the dates of narrated events, though the book does proceed chronologically. Wilson traces the important strands of...
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