Tolstoy (Penguin Classics S.) - Tapa blanda

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born into one of the grand old families of Imperial Russia and his life encompassed the gambling saloons and brothels of Moscow and St Petersburg to life as an artillery officer in the Crimean War, and thence to life as an enlightened landowner in Tsarist Russia and husband in a tempestuous marriage to Sofya Bers. A.N. Wilson provides new insight not only into the genius which produced WAR AND PEACE and ANNA KARENINA, but also into the plight of a free imagination working within the restrictive bounds of a repressive and totalitarian regime. This is the story of the greatest Russian dissident of all time with echoes from the nineteenth century which reverberate in our own age.

A.N. Wilson was born in 1950. He was educated at New College, Oxford and is a prolific journalist as well as being an acclaimed biographer and novelist of note. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in north London with his wife and daughter.