Abstract

Tolstoy's Diaries

The article presents information related to books on Russian novelist Leo NikolayevichTolstoy. In the year 1847, when he was a lad of nineteen, Tolstoy began to keep a diary, in which he recorded not only the passing events of his life, but his most intimate reflections on problems of conduct and on such literary questions as interested him. The book "The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy," translated by C.J. Hogarth and A. Sirnis, contains the same. "The Journal of Leo Tolstoi," translated by Rose Strunsky, comprises of Tolstoy's mingled insignificant notes on his own health and on trivial events of his life with reflections and confessions that are of real value for the study of his personality and notes that were raw material for his published writings.