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Tolstoy
[ tohl-stoi, tol-; Russian tuhl-stoi ]
noun
- Leo or Lev Ni·ko·la·e·vich [lev nik-, uh, -, lahy, -, uh, -vich, lyef, nyi-kuh-, lah, -yi-vyich], Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Tolstoy
/ ˈtɒlstɔɪ; talˈstɔj /
noun
- TolstoyLeo, Count18281910MRussianWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Leo , Russian name Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. 1828–1910, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and philosopher; author of the two monumental novels War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77). Following a spiritual crisis in 1879, he adopted a form of Christianity based on a doctrine of nonresistance to evil
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- Tol·stoy·an Tol·stoi·an adjective noun
- Tol·stoy·ism noun
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Example Sentences
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
The great Mann disappointed her; instead of Kafka and Tolstoy, he wanted to know what she thought of Hemingway.
She saw herself as part of a larger tradition that includes Honore de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann.
If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.
But genuine strength, as Tolstoy understood so well, comes from humility, not hubris.
May I suggest that you should be careful not to imply that Tolstoy's great Shakespearian heresy has no other support than mine.
The translation has been authorized by Count Tolstoy, who has specially commended it for its accuracy, simplicity, and directness.
You should also look up the history of the Ireland forgeries, unless, as is very probable, Tolstoy has anticipated you in this.
The subjects are varied, and present Tolstoy's well-known views in his always forceful manner.
A truer and completer picture of war than either Tolstoy or Zola.
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