He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909, and that he never won is a major controversy.īorn to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Leo Tolstoy Audiobook Full Length | Audiobook English PerrisĠ0:28:09 Chapter 03 - Tolstoy's Place in European Literature by Edward Garnett - Edward Garnett ChestertonĠ0:10:26 Chapter 02 - Leo Tolstoy as Writer by G.
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