WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature)

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Introduction: Leo Tolstoy - Biography

What is Art?

Wherein Is Truth In Art?

On the Significance of Science and Art

Shakespeare and the Drama

The Works of Guy De Maupassant

A. Stockham'sTokology

Amiel's Diary

S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories

Stop and Think!

Criticisms on Tolstoy:

"Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky” by Maurice Baring

My Literary Passions: "Tolstoy” by William Dean Howells

Essays on Russian Novelists: "Tolstoi” by William Lyon Phelps

"Tolstoy the Artist” and "Tolstoy the Preacher” by Ivan Panin

"Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity” by G. K. Chesterton

The Critical Game: "Tolstoy” by John Macy

"Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor” by Isabel Hapgood

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.