Tolstoy
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noun
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- Tolstoian adjective
- Tolstoyan adjective
- Tolstoyism noun
- Tolstoyist noun
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There were other influences: He was reportedly a voracious reader of Victor Hugo, John Steinbeck and Leo Tolstoy.
From Los Angeles Times
Remarkably, Mr. Mian regards Leon Trotsky, not William Shakespeare or Leo Tolstoy, as “the greatest writer . . . of all time.”
Two years later he made a rare foray into fiction with "A Couple," inspired by the relationship and correspondence between Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sophia.
From Barron's
Yet like unhappy families, to borrow from Tolstoy, each unfinished national rebellion wanes in its own way.
The Russian winter becomes a major plot point in Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” in which Napoleon attacks and fails to conquer a country bigger, colder and fiercer than anticipated.
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