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Sydney Smith, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Edinburgh-Review-or-Critical-Journal~~Sydney-Smith General Books LLC Purchase of this bo… Mehr…

Sydney Smith, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Edinburgh-Review-or-Critical-Journal~~Sydney-Smith General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IX.?LYOF NIKOLAYEVITCH TOLSTOY. 1. Russkaya Krititcheskaya Literatoura o proizvedeniyakh. L. N. Tolstovo. Moscow: Velinsky. 7 vols. 2. Graf L. N. Tolstoy, Vospominaniya. By S. P. Arbuzova. Moscow. 8. Iz Proslago. By N. V. Uspensky. Moscow. 4. Gesprdche uber und mil Tolstoj. Von B. Lowenfeld. Berlin. 5. Letters. By Turgenef. 6. GrafL. Tolstoy v literatura i iskusstve. By U. Bitovt. Peters burg. 1908. 7. Lyof Nikoldyevitch Tolstoy. Biografiya. By P. Birukof. Moscow. 1906. 8. The Life of Tolstoy. By Aylmer Maude. London. 2 vols. 1908 and 1910. 9. Tolstoi et les Doukhobors. Par J. W. Bienbtock. Paris. 1902. 10. Graf Leo Tolstoi. Von Anna Seuron. Berlin. 1895. And works by Leo Tolstoy. Born in August of 1828, and outliving the delicacy of his constitution until the winter of 1910, the figure of the great writer, known to this country as Leo Tolstoy, occupies a more considerable portion of the Russian century than has been achieved by any of his predecessors or contemporaries. However, in Russia, we may compare the influences of the pen and the sword, the pen has proved by far the more dangerous weapon to its wielders. The nation's warriors have worn their honours to a ripe age, but her thinkers, her poets, the men who have expressed her, almost invariably, ended in an early and often lamentable grave. Rykeyef, hanged as a conspirator; G6gol, a suicide at forty-three; Puskhin, at thirty-eight killed in a duel; L6rmontof, thrice exiled, dead at thirty; Shevtchenko, robbed by torture and imprisonment of life at forty-seven; V6n6 vitinof, dead of insult and outrage at twenty-two; Koltzof, broken-hearted at twenty- three; Belinsky, starved at thirty-eight; Chernish6vski, sent to the mines at thirty-five; Hertzen, imprisoned, ...<

ISBN: 9780217282314

The Edinburgh Review Vol. 214 Or Critical Journal Author :Sydney Smith 9780217282314 0217282318