A concise critical introduction from 1914. Winstanley sets Tolstoy among the Russian writers whose rise astonished Western Europe, then follows his life and development through the early works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, which she compares to Othello as a domestic tragedy, and on to his later religious and moral writings.
A clear, compact guide for readers approaching Tolstoy for the first time. Download the free EPUB.