Biographical Sketches (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Leo Tolstoy's Biographical Sketches is a collection of several memoirs and one letter that presents glimpses from the life of one of the world's renowned novelists and moral philosophers. This light-hearted collection contrasts the joys of childhood and the difficulties of married life.<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.