Posts belonging to Category Leo Tolstoy

Dramatization of Tolstoy’s War and Peace I never new there was a theatre version of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy before, but I just came across an announcement about the Prague German Language Theatre Festival – and apparently there is – though it’s in German. I wonder if anyone would do an English version. [...]

Following on from my posting of information about Leo Tolstoy’s The Cossacks, I have now created a new page about one of Tolstoy’s greatest classics: War and Peace. War and Peace is one of those novels that a lot of people think about reading, but never get round to, probably being put off by the [...]

As well as Science Fiction and Fantasy I also love many works of classic literature, and probably my favourite author is Leo Tolstoy – specifically his great works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but also some of his lesser known fiction like The Cossacks. To that end I have started populating some information [...]

The latest of Inside the Blogosphere is available at Grasping for the Wind. This time our subject was: What makes a battle or combat scene exciting to read, and what makes it drag on or detract from the narrative? This was a really interesting topic and I wish I’d had more time to look at [...]