Donna Tussing Orwin: 2 books
by Donna Tussing Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel in other places over the years, he always considered this family residence in the Russian heartland as his home. His lifelong quest for truth and meaning...
by Donna Tussing Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks, War and Peace,...