Thackerayana Notes & Anecdotes

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The Life of Tolstoy

First published in 1911, Romain Rolland's biography of Tolstoy is both a tribute to its great subject and an assessment of his work. Rolland, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915, was profoundly affected by Tolstoy's writing and particularly concerned with Tolstoy's conceptions of art. "Tolstoy does not speak to the privileged," Rolland writes; "he speaks to ordinary men. He is our conscience. He says what we all think, we average people, and what we all fear to read in ourselves. He is-as he loved to style himself in his letters, by that most beautiful of titles, the most pleasant of all-'our brother.'"

Tobias Smollett

“Tobias Smollett” by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that