Sample Sentences forLeo Tolstoy (editor-reviewed)
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Leo Tolstoy opens his masterpiece Anna Karenina with one of literature's most famous lines: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Leo Tolstoy = admired Russian author and philosopher
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Mahatma Gandhi credited Leo Tolstoy's writings for influencing his nonviolent resistance leadership during the Indian independence movement.
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In his later years, Leo Tolstoy renounced copyright to his works and lived as a peasant on his estate, much to the frustration of his wife who worried about their family's financial security
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Leo Tolstoy's epic masterpiece War and Peace—renowned for its immense length, complex structure, and hundreds of characters—follows multiple aristocratic families through the Napoleonic Wars while weaving in profound philosophical reflections on history and human nature.
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Leo Tolstoy, "Family Happiness" passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.† (source)
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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1877)† (source)
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Where was Leo Tolstoy when I needed him?† (source)
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WAR AND PEACE y Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi† (source)
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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.† (source)
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Sara slammed the door so hard that a sizable biography of Leo Tolstoy (last words: "The truth is ...I care a great deal ...what they ...") fell off my bookshelf and landed with a thud on our checkered floor like an echo of the slamming door.† (source)
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With these fateful words, Count Leo Tolstoy opened the novel of the spiritual dismemberment of his modern heroine, Anna Karenina.† (source)
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy† (source)
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Long captivated by the writing of Leo Tolstoy, McCandless particularly admired how the great novelist had forsaken a life of wealth and privilege to wander among the destitute.† (source)
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