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Americans in conversation with Tolstoy
selected accounts, 1887-1923
By Sekirin, Peter
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-78642-253-1
- Publisher
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2007
Making shoes, baling hay, and gardening are not the activities normally associated with the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Nevertheless, when Americans visited the literary icon in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they consistently found him engaged in just these types of manual labor. He was either out in the fields or just returning when his visitors-writers, journalists, ambassadors, professors, and tourists alike-made their appe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
