Jeff Love is Associate Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University, USA. He is author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004).

"A marvelously engaging, lucid road map to one of the world's most fertile and infuriating creative minds. In a series of deep readings in deft philosophical frames, Jeff Love returns to Tolstoy his magnificent strangeness while at the same time increasing the comfort zone of home." - Caryl Emerson, Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Hero Truth; 1. 'Who am I?'; 2. A Novelist?; 3. A Fabulist?; 4. A Prophet?; 5. A Philosopher?; Epilogue: Tolstoy's Legacy; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.

Jeff Love is Associate Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University, USA. He is author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004).

"A marvelously engaging, lucid road map to one of the world's most fertile and infuriating creative minds. In a series of deep readings in deft philosophical frames, Jeff Love returns to Tolstoy his magnificent strangeness while at the same time increasing the comfort zone of home." - Caryl Emerson, Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Hero Truth; 1. 'Who am I?'; 2. A Novelist?; 3. A Fabulist?; 4. A Prophet?; 5. A Philosopher?; Epilogue: Tolstoy's Legacy; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.

Jeff Love is Associate Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University, USA. He is author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004).

"A marvelously engaging, lucid road map to one of the world's most fertile and infuriating creative minds. In a series of deep readings in deft philosophical frames, Jeff Love returns to Tolstoy his magnificent strangeness while at the same time increasing the comfort zone of home." - Caryl Emerson, Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Hero Truth; 1. 'Who am I?'; 2. A Novelist?; 3. A Fabulist?; 4. A Prophet?; 5. A Philosopher?; Epilogue: Tolstoy's Legacy; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.