Two Hussars (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Leo Tolstoy's Two Hussars (1856) contrasts the social and moral values of two generations. Comparing the characters of a father and his son, Tolstoy elucidates how the kindness and affections of the past have given way to the selfishness and lust of the present.<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.