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Tolstoy

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Tol·stoy or Tol·stoi  (tlstoi, tl-, tl-stoi), Count Leo or Lev Nikolayevich 1828-1910.
Russian writer whose great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil.
Tol·stoyan, Tol·stoian adj. & n.
Tolstoy [ˈtɒlstɔɪ (Russian) talˈstɔj]
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(Biographies / Tolstoy, Leo, Count (1828-1910) M, Russian, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Leo, Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828-1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil
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Noun1.TolstoyTolstoy - Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910)
Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy


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The man came forward, and some one--a woman--arose and asked about some opinion the speaker had expressed concerning Tolstoy.
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You may read the greatest part of Dickens, as you may read the greatest part of Hawthorne or Tolstoy, and not once be reminded of literature as a business or a cult, but you can hardly read a paragraph, hardly a sentence, of Thackeray's without being reminded of it either by suggestion or downright allusion.
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He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa.
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