Leo Tolstoy

"In Leo Tolstoy: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources from 1978 to 2003, David and Melinda Egan list the more than 1,200 books, essays, articles, and doctoral dissertations written about the great Russian author. This twenty-five-year period has seen a remarkable growth in Tolstoy scholarship, including significant developments in feminist, psychological, linguistic, and intertextual studies. Most importantly, a number of seminal works have emerged that challenge the long-established critical view that Tolstoy was not one writer but two - Tolstoy the artist, who wrote the great classics War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and Tolstoy the moralist and sage, who, during the last three decades of his life, wrote didactic works to propagate his religious, moral, and ethical views. This volume is divided into nine sections that address Tolstoy's novels, the major components of his nonliterary life, and his legacy to the world."--BOOK JACKET.