Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher as well as a pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction. As a moral philosopher Tolstoy was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through works such as The Kingdom of God is Within You. During his life, Tolstoy came to the conclusion that William Shakespeare is a bad dramatist and not a true artist at all. Tolstoy explained his views in a critical essay on Shakespeare written in 1903. It includes the text "Shakespeare's Attitude to the Working Classes" By ERNEST CROSBY And a Letter From G. BERNARD SHAW.
- ISBN10 0344551989
- ISBN13 9780344551987
- Publish Date 31 October 2018 (first published 26 June 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Franklin Classics Trade Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 196
- Language English