Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Sometimes ET sets out to shock the reader, as when she remarks that Pilate is her favourite biblical character: the model of a detached, fair, and judicious colonial governor. Sometimes she writes persuasively, as...

RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.

Most of the stories concern love, and some make creative use of the lives or works of other authors, like Tolstoy and Daphne Du Maurier . In The Closing DoorRT created a character who...

CMT , under the initials A.L.O.E., published War and Peace. A Tale of the Retreat from Caubul.

TW 's dramatic adaptation of Tolstoy 's War and Peace was broadcast at its full length of ten hours; it was later repeated in episodes.

A commission for RW to write a New Yorker article on Tolstoy 's grandson, who lived in Mexico, spurred her to an important, though unrealised, project for a Mexican travel-book.