Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy

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Textual Production Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , under the initials A.L.O.E., published War and Peace. A Tale of the Retreat from Caubul.
She was just ahead of Tolstoy 's more famous use of the title. The retreat of...
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's next biography, that of Sonya Tolstoy , appeared six months posthumously under the title of Married to Tolstoy.
Calder-Marshall, Arthur. “A Genius at Home”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3056, p. 612.
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Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
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...
Textual Production Rebecca West
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.
Quinones, Sam. “A singular view”. Guardian Weekly, p. 34.
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Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
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...
Textual Production Anne Carson
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...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD collaborated with Salka Viertel on a screenplay of Tolstoy 's Anna Karenina for Greta Garbo .
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
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Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ursula K. Le Guin
This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain , Tolstoy , J. R. R. Tolkien (Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi the tribal native American whom her father studied and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Oliver Hobbes
The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy .
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray.
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In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
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This collection contains Parkes's reminiscences of George Eliot , Anna Jameson , Mary Howitt , Georgiana Fullerton , and Catherine Booth ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...

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