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A 7 page paper on the famous Russian novelist and thinker. The paper examines his two greatest novels as well as several lesser works, and shows how all Tolstoy's themes reflect the times in which he lived and his concern for the Russian people. Bibliography lists five works.
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provides an exhaustive revelation of his character, just as his character presents an extraordinary work of art" (Lampert, 261). Throughout Tolstoys life, he found his natural medium for self-expression, and
possibly even for being, in the written word, and we still have those words by which to measure the man. Tolstoy, the son of a Russian aristocrat, was born
in 1828 on his familys estate, Yasnaya Polyana, near Moscow. His mother died when he was not yet two; his father, when Leo was eight (Rowe, 2-3). He was raised
by a series of aunts and educated by private tutors. Beyond any doubt he was a brilliant child, but strangely, did not do well at his studies; his biographer William
Rowe observes that nonetheless "Leo pursued a wide variety of ideas with remarkable intensity for a boy of eleven or twelve. He thought deeply about the concept of eternity and
the possibility of reincarnation. . . . In [his book] Otrochestvo (Boyhood) he later described his practice of whirling around suddenly to catch emptiness unawares -- because external objects, owing
their existence to his consciousness, had presumably vanished when he stopped paying attention to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless equally intensely sexual, and this was to present
problems for him for the rest of his life. At sixteen he entered the University of Kazan, intending to become a diplomat. He quickly switched to law, but did poorly
at that too. During college he seemed much more intent on pursuing a vigorous program of both mental and physical exercise, coupling strenuous activity with a voracious program of fiction-reading.
He left school without graduating after contracting, predictably, gonorrhea (Rowe, 4). Returning to the family estate which he had recently inherited, he vacillated between trying to improve the lives of
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