Tortured Noble: The Story of Leo Tolstoy

by Neil Heims

During his life, Count Leo Tolstoy was the most famous of the great Russian writers in his era. Although his great novels, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, are set among the vast nation's aristocracy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599350661
• ISBN13: 9781599350660
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

"Tortured Noble" is specifically recommended for highschool and community library Biography collecti

Count Leo Tolstoy was the most famous Russian writer of his day, and a man whose literary works have been the subject of major motion pictures and are still studied in university literature courses today. Perhaps best known to the general reading public are his acclaimed novels 'Anna Karenina' and 'War and Peace'. As an author, Tolstoy was able to infuse the lives of his aristocratic characters with qualities and quirks that are readily identified with by ordinary men and women. "Tortured Noble: The Story Of Leo Tolstoy" by freelance writer and literary critic Neil Heims is the biography of an outstanding talent who led a troubled personal live. Tolstoy was orphaned as a child, the brunt of competing ambitions by others, aspired to an ascetic life while sometimes crippled with self contempt. Somehow he was able to use all of his life experiences to create some of the most memorable fiction to ever come out of Russia and be acclaimed world wide. "Tortured Noble" is specifically recommended for highschool and community library Biography collections, and can be confidently recommended for college level supplemental reading lists for students of Tolstoy's literary works.