Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Leo Tolstoy's An Anthology is a collection of narratives and literary criticism. It presents a mixture of the author's viewpoints on different aspects of life, especially politics and literature. Tolstoy's stance on behalf of the poor and subjugated people of his society is explained in many of these pieces, which hails other intellectuals who have fought for the same cause.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. .