Tolstoy
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
The supreme realist. War and Peace captures an entire civilization with a breadth and vividness no other novel has matched. Anna Karenina is the perfect novel. His later moral crisis — the renunciation of art, the turn to radical Christianity — is itself a drama worthy of his own fiction.
Key works
- War and Peace1869— History, war, love — everything
- Anna Karenina1877— The perfect novel
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich1886— Mortality in 70 pages