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Rated: 2 times. Average rating 4.50
Description
A touching, brilliant, & groundbreaking biography of one of literary history's most famous couples, the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy & his wife Sonya, at once a dual biography, a history, & the portrait of a long & stormy marriage. It is a compelling illumination both of the nature of genius & of the universal problems of love, sex, & marriage -- themes that Tolstoy played out in his great fiction & that haunted him in his tangled domestic life. The book is rich in anecdotes, full of sweeping history, & imbued with Shirer's profound knowledge of literature & life. A story of a great romance between two people who could live neither together nor apart. B&W photos.
Books by William L. Shirer:
- Love and Hatred (1994)
- Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich (1990)
