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...Written in 1871 by Count Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy...
...disturbed, certainly not flustered, according to those who know him, when last week he received a threat from His ex-Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II to the effect that if he persisted in having him impersonated by the famed actor, Ferdinand Bonn, in his forthcoming play, Rasputin, by Count Alexis Tolstoy, the onetime Kaiser would have no recourse other than legal prosecution...
...projects which he has since pursued with a vigor and skill that has brought him high rank, before his 50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes written for the sake of studying intense types of men and women under the microscope of psychology, in which Dr. Zweig is a scientific as well as an artistic adept. The five volumes...
Resurrection (Rod La Roque, Dolores Del Rio) is a powerful and thoroughly satisfying picturization of Count Leo Tolstoy's novel. Under the adept direction of Edwin Carewe, abetted by Count Ilya Tolstoy, the tale of nice and unnice love, betrayal and soul-redemption is spun deftly and irresistibly to its logical close. Suave Rod La Roque is splendidly convincing as the idyllic, villainous and ultimately penitent Prince Dmitri. Dolores Del Rio is no whit less splendid as the luckless Katusha Maslova...
...that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would you dare,' I asked, 'oust any of them in favor of Dickens...