{"product_id":"tolstoy-biography","title":"Tolstoy Biography","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this definitive portrait of one of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and a supreme writer who declared: “Literature is rubbish.” Yet his titanic personality and the astonishing range of his talents and interests made him, as an author and as a strange self-proclaimed prophet, one of the undisputed literary giants of the nineteenth century. From his famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44970716070188,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/tolstoy-biography","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}