Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

It was later, when she began on a story about one of her Athenry aunts, when all of a sudden I knew that I had a facile gift. She then discovered for the first time...

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...

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...

Martha comes to see her marriage as repeating a terrible mistake already made by her mother: she is horribly metamorphosed, entirely dependent on her children for any interest in life, resented by them, and resenting...

Lessing spoke here of visiting a four-room school in Zimbabwe, looking out on miles of charred stumps which she remembered as having been long ago the most wonderful forest I have ever seen. It...

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...

In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky , who encouraged CG , then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted...

She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James