Greatest works of Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina & War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. His two most famous works, the novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina", are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Review, design and indexing by Century eBooks