Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Leo Tolstoy

 

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1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...Chaim Lewis Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re...Ruth Slate Leo TolstoyResurrectionPrint: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...Arnold Wesker Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them h...Jack Jones Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela...William Holt Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...Neville Cardus Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasie...Clare Cameron Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] an...Henry James Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'.Henry James Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat in a seat in the square, my neighbours were mainly old men wrapped in dowdy overcoats and growling spasmodicall...Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. ...Gerald Moore Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues t...Gerald Shove Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [......Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyWhat Then Must We Do?Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost...Virginia Stephen Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid.Of the thing itself I think but littl...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So man...Antonia White Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee...Antonia White Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re...Leonard Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i...Arnold Bennett Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutze...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Illyich and other storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...Howard Smith Leo TolstoyResurrection, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...John Ridges Leo Tolstoy[extract from an unknown work]Print: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...Charles Stansfield Leo TolstoyIvan the FoolPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...Alfred Rawlings Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...R. B. Graham Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...Mary Robson Leo TolstoyMaster and ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...George Burrow Leo TolstoyThe CossacksPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...Francis Pollard Leo Tolstoy[essay on the Russian Famine]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...R. B. Graham Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book

 

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