Love, Jeff

September 25, 2008

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2008) Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the most important writers in the Western tradition. His two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, cover an enormous range of basic human experiences with a precision and probing spirit that, in the words of one critic, are simply "unmatched by any other writer."