Is published here a selection of letters of Lev Tolstoy, of great importance in the whole work of our writer. Of the more than ten thousand preserved, Selma Ancira selected, translated and annotated in detail the most significant. several love letters that Tolstoy wrote to Valeria Arsénieva and later his wife Sofia Bers included; those in which the budding writer describes his impressions as a volunteer in the war in the Caucasus and in the Crimea; which they tell us about your trip to Europe and its pedagogical concerns; which they inform us about your debut in the world of letters and the great moments that lived during and after the publication of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Not missing the story of his stormy friendship with Ivan Turgenev, correspondence addressed to Rainer Maria Rilke, Romain Rolland, Bernard Shaw, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorki, Gandhi or Strakhov, and the famous ...read more
