A decadent lifestyle of grossly over-eating, orgies, all-night gambling, hunting, going off with gypsies and sleeping like a dead man till two o'clock in the afternoonA" while, contrastingly, an affectionate family man who loved to join in games with his children. In this biography, Count Ilya Tolstoy, one of the thirteen children born to the Tolstoys, provides a surprisingly frank insight into his father's personality, family life and his tormented life as a viveur and writer. Count Ilya Tolstoy also relates how, as a ...
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A decadent lifestyle of grossly over-eating, orgies, all-night gambling, hunting, going off with gypsies and sleeping like a dead man till two o'clock in the afternoonA" while, contrastingly, an affectionate family man who loved to join in games with his children. In this biography, Count Ilya Tolstoy, one of the thirteen children born to the Tolstoys, provides a surprisingly frank insight into his father's personality, family life and his tormented life as a viveur and writer. Count Ilya Tolstoy also relates how, as a writer, his father Leo Tolstoy was not satisfied with his work which led to constant re-writing. He had feelings of hate for what he created to the point that he wanted to destroy Anna Karenina. Surprisingly, Tolstoy's wife, Sofia Andreevna, seems to have written passages of Anna Karenina and corrected her husband's grammar. Was she behind the deep understanding of a woman's emotions in the book that Leo Tolstoy described as ordinary and empty stuffA"? Leo Tolstoy believed that: One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium.A" He re-wrote his works until he reached this equilibrium.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in red cloth with gilt. Scattered foxing throughout; stain on front end paper; gilt title badly dulled; cloth stained and mottled. Owner's name.
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Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1914, hardcover with gilt and red stamped green cloth boards, octavo, 404pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with rubbing and mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, inner hinges repaired, text clean and unmarked with mild toning and off-setting, handsome gilt to top edge of text block. No DJ.
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Good. First American edition. Large 8vo. Elegant decorated cloth spine and front board. 405pp. Photographs. Bookplate. Both hinges shaken but sound; front hinge starting but sound. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges to apply for international shipping.