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Tolstoy 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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As I witness the many ways our members help build better lives for disabled veterans and their families, I am reminded of what Leo Tolstoy believed so deeply: "The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. Buck, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Such criticism includes the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Leo Tolstoy, who argued that schools violated a child's nature. |
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