It is rare for a novel to achieve the scale and lasting impact of War and Peace. The classic work by Leo Tolstoy has been ...

REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) — Maxim Gorky—Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others — Dover ($2.75). The grey old man was surely “the sounding bell of this world,” wrote Russian Novelist ...

Five years ago, after extensive research, Ernest J. Simmons began his two-volume life and appraisal of Russia’s great writer, Leo Tolstoy. In the first half of this biography, chapters of which were ...

Leo Tolstoy was the fourth son of Count Nikolai Tolstoy, a Russian nobleman whose family had been elevated and enriched during the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II. He knew little of his mother, who ...

Most people would not consider “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble” to be a nursery rhyme. But Utah children’s author Jennifer Adams does. Adams and illustrator Alison ...

The children’s book, written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth, follows a young boy named Nikolai who is determined to be the best person he can be but isn’t quite sure if he’s on the right path. He ...

I was struck by Peggy Noonan’s observation that, through his work, “Tolstoy himself is still alive” and “continues in human consciousness.” (“My Summer With Leo Tolstoy,” Declarations, Sept. 2). David ...

Hundreds of books, including a classic by Leo Tolstoy and a storybook by beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak, have been pulled from Florida school libraries this fall as administrators continue ...