{"product_id":"tolstoy-edward-crankshaw-9781448205219","title":"Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist","description":"Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhen he was thirty five, and Anna\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eKarenina\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewas finished before he was fifty. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament which made him world famous. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn a richly detailed and sympathetic book on the most creative years of Russia's greatest writer, Edward Crankshaw explores the world of Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the elements in it that contributed to his great art, and the nature of the creative processes involved. Accompanied by evocative illustrations of Tolstoy's life, Mr. Crankshaw's text presents a development of this extraordinary man-his idyllic country childhood and his painful schooling, the wild years of conscience-stricken dissipation, the sojourn among the Cossacks in the Caucasus, the army service in the Crimean War, his entry into Moscow and St. Petersburg literary circles, his fateful marriage. It is an absorbing account which helps us to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's towering genius-and the limitations that went with it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Crankshaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1448205212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781448205219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d","brand":"Edward Crankshaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245261320447,"sku":"9781448205219","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0481298-17e3-402b-8430-2fbdcc85983b.jpg?v=1693927030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tolstoy-edward-crankshaw-9781448205219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}