Tolstoy

PREFACE

To those of my own generation, the light that has but lately failed was the purest that illumined their youth. In the gloomy twilight of the later nineteenth century it shone as a star of consolation, whose radiance attracted and appeased our awakening spirits. As one of the many--for there are many in France--to whom Tolstoy was very much more than an admired artist: for wh...