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Books by Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist, moral philosopher, and social reformer, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in any language. Born into Russian nobility, he served in the Crimean War before turning to literature. His two most celebrated novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), established him as a master of psychological realism. The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) was written after his religious conversion and reflects his later philosophy that authentic moral life requires rejecting the values of polite society. He also wrote the novella Hadji Murat and the play The Power of Darkness.