Writers · Thinkers · Voices

Meet the minds.

Find a familiar face or a new perspective. Search author names, initials or known spelling variants, then follow their words.

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1 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

Colour photographic portrait, 1908Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii; cropped reproduction · Public domain

Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy’s scenes give memorable ideas to an atmosphere or a speaker. Read the Rostov celebration and Pierre’s encounter with a Mason in the Maude translation, keeping their voices distinct from direct authorial advice.

1828 AD – 1910 AD · 412 collected ↗