The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Editorial ALMA BOOKS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALMA BOOKS
- ISBN13 9781846881022
- ISBN10 1846881021
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 609
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2001
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English LiteraturThe Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Editorial ALMA BOOKS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the background of her life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the transition from old feudal Russia to the three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy's own life story, the study of one woman's private experience, that the diaries are most valuable and moving. They are a testament to a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable. It contains a forward by Doris Lessing.