Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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)...

In 1963 Eldon Branda produced a dramatised version which Stead liked, but which was not produced.Stanley Burnshaw fought to persuade Holt, Rinehart and Winston to re-issue the work, but again no British publisher...

ZS went to Malorees Junior School and then to Hampstead Comprehensive . She was a shy, quiet girl and an overweight, anti-social adolescent, who used reading as an escape and refuge. She also loved...

OS 's belated preface explains her anti-realist method, directed against the influence of Zola and Tolstoy , whose predictability she disliked. Here nothing can be prophesied. There is a strange coming and going of feet...

Mother Russia begins in a manner closely reminiscent of BR 's own Brothers (its closest parallel among her previous books). Again two near-simultaneous births take place in Tsarist Russia on a day also marked by...

JP had begun writing some years before this first publication. During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...

A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...

Isabel Hapgood , an American writer and translator of Tolstoy , thrashed KM 's book, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers, in a review for The Nation.

During the 1930s, EM was an atheist and a member of the Independent Labour Party . She later leaned more towards anarchism and pacifism. She described herself as an champion for freedom who opposed the...