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I find myself compelled to share the words of Tolstoy because I’ve been moved by his art and I’m seeking to be united with others who have been similarly moved–or who will be when they get with it and ...

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer from the 1800s, best known for his larger-than-life novels, which are still considered some of the greatest books ever written. He wasn't just a novelist, though; ...

As the nineteenth century was packing its bags in early 1898, Leo Tolstoy published the most outlandish book ever written on one of that century’s favorite subjects: art. Approaching his seventieth ...

What does the quote mean? This line comes from Tolstoy's 1897 book What Is Art?, where he spends nearly two hundred pages arguing against the popular idea that art exists mainly to give pleasure or ...

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Leo Tolstoy's story of the woman who ditches her testy cold fish of a husband for a dashing army officer in 19th-century Russia is not only routinely described as the greatest of all novels; it has ...