Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...

Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

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...

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.

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.

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...

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...

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...

HL 's admiration of Meredith is very evident in the preface and throughout the book, which foregrounds his attention to the New Woman. Lynch refers to him as a master in English literature, and above...

Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith . Hating the round...

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

While Charlotte Brontë , MEC argues, swept the world away in the storm of her passion and George Eliotconquered it with the power of understanding, [Elizabeth] Gaskell forced it to weep for pity [and]...

CD collaborated with Salka Viertel on a screenplay of Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo .

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...

CG painstakingly translated The Novels of Leo Tolstoy: six volumes which included Anna Karenina, Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories, and War and Peace (which filled three of the six volumes).