Love and Hatred The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy

A touching, brilliant, and groundbreaking biography of one of literary history's most famous couples, the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sonya, at once a dual biography, a history, and the portrait of a long and stormy marriage. It is a compelling illumination both of the nature of genius and of the universal problems of love, sex, and marriage -- themes that Tolstoy played out in his great fiction and that haunted him in his tangled domestic life. The book is rich in anecdotes, full of sweeping history, and imbued with Shirer's profound knowledge of literature and life. A story of a great romance between two people who could live neither together nor apart. B&W photos.