February 22, 2015
Count Leo Tolstoy, My Companion/Un-Companion Part Two
(What follows is part two of a two-part post. Part one can be found here.) In a lonely freshman year, I loved my way through War and Peace, but a […]
May 10, 2012
Victor Hugo and the Two Tolstoys
One of the keys to Tolstoy is his early admiration of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. The young Tolstoy visited Hugo during a trip to Europe; the young Russian Count read and […]