Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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).

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

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

LCA 's next biography, that of Sonya Tolstoy , appeared six months posthumously under the title of Married to 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.

Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...

EL was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly...

AC 's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy , Lazarus, Freud , Catullus , Sappho and Emily Dickinson , not to mention the French...

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 ,...

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]...

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...