Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy

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Travel Constance Garnett
She spent seven weeks in Russia and made valuable contacts (this was when she first met Tolstoy ). She returned to Russiain 1904, accompanied by her son David.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25.
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Travel Denise Levertov
DL , on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy 's house, Yasnaya Polyana.
Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press.
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Travel Lady Cynthia Asquith
Her old age included travel: three visits to Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland and one to Tolstoy 's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Russia (with two days in Moscow and one in Leningrad) in connection...
Travel Kathleen E. Innes
Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell , Hermann Hesse , Emily Greene Balch , Romain Rolland , Georges Duhamel , and Paul Birukoff (Tolstoy 's secretary and biographer).
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ursula K. Le Guin
This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain , Tolstoy , J. R. R. Tolkien (Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi the tribal native American whom her father studied and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Oliver Hobbes
The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy .
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray.
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In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD collaborated with Salka Viertel on a screenplay of Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo .
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
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Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes, a biography of MS bearing the name of Aylmer Maude , her longtime friend and biographer of Tolstoy and many others, was paid for (and mostly written)...

Timeline

28 August 1828: Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born...

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28 August 1828

Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Iasnaia Poliana, an estate (which is variously transliterated) near Tula in Russia.

1852: Tolstoy's first published work, Childhood,...

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1852

Tolstoy 's first published work, Childhood, appeared in the Russian literary journal entitled Contemporary.

17 December 1867: The first three of the eventual four volumes...

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17 December 1867

The first three of the eventual four volumes of Tolstoy 's epoch-making historicalnovelWar and Peace were announced in a Moscow newspaper as available.

1875-77: Tolstoy published Anna Karenina, one of the...

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1875-77

Tolstoy published Anna Karenina, one of the great love stories of the world,
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications.
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in the Russian Messenger.

1889: Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer...

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1889

Leo Tolstoy published the novelKreutzer Sonata; it was quickly translated into English, French, and German.

1899-1900: Leo Tolstoy serially published his novel...

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1899-1900

Leo Tolstoy serially published his novelResurrection.

27 June 1904: The Times printed Tolstoy's letter on the...

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27 June 1904

The Times printed Tolstoy 's letter on the Russian-Japanese war, Bethink Yourselves, which was translated by Isabella Fyvie Mayo , as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov .

1 August 1905: Isabella Fyvie Mayo (as I. F. M.) and Vladimir...

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1 August 1905

Isabella Fyvie Mayo (as I. F. M.) and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov (or V. Tchertkoef) published a translation of another letter from Tolstoy to the London Times, A Great Iniquity.

1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...

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1906

Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy by Isabella Fyvie Mayo as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw ), was published.

7 November 1910: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist,...

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7 November 1910

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy , Russian novelist, died at Astapovo, Russia.

After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...

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After March 2006

Irène Némirovsky 's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.

16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...

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16 April 2007

Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...

1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...

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1 July 2007

British publisher Tank Books released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.

Texts

Dane, Clemence et al. Anna Karenina. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 1935.
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich. The Novels of Leo Tolstoy. Translator Garnett, Constance, W. Heinemann, 1904.