Covering the years 1847-1894, this volume includes passages that have been chosen to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer - his views on his own work and that of others - and his development as a person and as a thinker. It also shows his attitude to contemporary social problems, rural life,[...]

Leo Tolstoy was unquestionably the most prolific letter-writer of all the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth-century. Over 8500 of his letters have been published. This title presents a selection of 608 of them. It is divided into five sections, running from 1828 to 1879.[...]