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 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 Rose Tremain
RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald 's Nature and...
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 Marie Stopes
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)...
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...
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, 1982.
10: 137
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, 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 Constance Garnett
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).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
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 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 Vernon Lee
VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...
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 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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...

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