{"product_id":"2201647","title":"Tolstoy","description":"792 pp. Translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux. \"Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, \"Literature is rubbish.\" From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.\" CONTENTS: THE TERMS OF THE PROBLEM: Before Leo Tolstoy; Childhood; The World Outside; Kazan; Wild Oats; A TIME OF VIOLENCE: The Caucasus; Sevastopol; Introduction to Civilian Life; TRAVEL, ROMANCE AND PEDAGOGY: Discovery of Europe; A Few False Starts; Second Trip Abroad; \"Arbiter of the Peace\" and Schoolmaster; SONYA: Betrothal; A Terrifying Happiness; The Great Labor; War and Peace; The Night at Arzamas; CONFLICT: Interim; Anna Karenina; Art and Faith; The Horrors of the City; the Appeal of the \"Dark Ones\"; THE LOATHSOME FLESH: The Temptation of Sainthood; The Kreutzer Sonata; Famine and Strife; Sonya's Folly; What Is Art?; THE APOSTLE OF NON-VIOLENCE: Resurrection; the Dukhobors; Excommunication; the Crimea; The Russo-Japanese War; THE SOLUTION: Days Pass and a Birthday; Re-enter Chertkov; Last Will and Testament; Flight; Post Mortem; APPENDICES: Biographical Notes; Notes to the Text; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Harmony Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12595802898502,"sku":"2201647","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2201647.jpg?v=1571423524","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2201647","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}