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...best things about this new full-length biography of Tolstoy is the picture it gives of the great Russian as a young man. Both of the novels by which he is best remembered were written later: War and Peace in his 30s and Anna Karenina in his 40s. They were not written by the unkempt peasant-patriarch of the last publicized years of Tolstoy's life, but by a rude aristocrat of tremendous energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tolstoy, Troglodyte | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Thomas Dixon's The Clansman was filmed as Birth of a Nation; Sir James Barrie's Admirable Crichton became a movie called Male and Female (1919); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was retitled Love (1927); James M. Cain's Baby in the Icebox was filmed as She Made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What-You-May-Call-lt | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

When Sir Walter arrived in Moscow last week the papers called him "Tovarish." Theatergoers stood up to cheer when they saw Trade Union Chief Shvernik steer him into a box to watch a performance of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tovarish Sir Walter | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...years the world's fair of the cinema world has been the International Film Festival at Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cannes for Venice | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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