Word: tolstoyana
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Alexandra, youngest of Tolstoy's daughters, has written the umpteenth story of her father's life, coincident with the publication of a new, grand-scale biography of Chekhov. Author Tolstoy was her father's secretary, and her book is a useful, bulky filing cabinet of Tolstoyana, though empty of literary substance. David Magarshack is a pundit of the Russian drama who has already written a life of Producer Stanislavsky and a study of Chekhov's plays. His huge, valuable Chekhov resembles Tolstoy only in that it, too. is more a receptacle for facts than a vehicle...
...other cheek, once made a sharp retort to Bernard Shaw. The occasion was the submission by Mr. Shaw of several of his works for criticism to the Count. Tolstoy's letter in reply was released, in London, by erudite Mr. Aylmer Maude, now collecting and translating Tolstoyana...
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