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Heims, Neil

Tortured Noble: The Story of Leo Tolstoy

144 pp. | Morgan | August, 2007 | Library ISBN 978-1-59935-066-0 $27.95
(4) YA World Writers series. Heims portrays the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina as a man difficult to ignore, dismiss--or like. This volume emphasizes the indecision of Tolstoy's early years and the radical Christianity of his last decades. His complexity and extraordinary social influence in Russia come through in the dry text. Photographs and art reproductions help set the scene. Timeline, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

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