| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Tolstoy, Count Leo |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Tol·stoy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t l stoi, t l-, t l-stoi |
| DATES: | 1828–1910 |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or Tol·stoi |
| Russian writer and philosopher whose great novels War and Peace (1864–1869) and Anna Karenina (1873–1876) offer extraordinary detail and profound psychological insights. His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil. | | OTHER FORMS: | Tol·stoyan, Tol·stoian —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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