$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing / ISBN:9781921656132
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy
It's 1910.
The life of Leo Tolstoy is moving towards its close.
The assistant: 'Since my conversion to Tolstoyism, I was hungry for God, hungry to learn, to perfect my soul.'
The most celebrated figure in Russia is surrounded.
The daughter: 'I have made myself indispensable to Papa, and he is grateful. He loves me now, much as I love him.'
A colony of acolytes and administrators jostle for his favour.
The doctor: 'I am not so foolish as to think that he is Christ. But Leo Nikolayevich is certainly one of his prophets.'
Torn by the contradictions between his egalitarian creed and his privileged situation, he finds himself desperate for peace.
The wife: 'I know it for sure now. They'll do anything to come between me and my husband.'
Drawing on the writings of Tolstoy and his intimates, dancing bewitchingly between fact and fiction, The Last Station evokes brilliantly the battle for the tortured soul of a genius.
Jay Parini
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer and James McAvoy
It's 1910.
The life of Leo Tolstoy is moving towards its close.
The assistant: 'Since my conversion to Tolstoyism, I was hungry for G... Buy or find out more →
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The Last Station: A Novel Of Tolstoy's Final Year
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