Was it… a) Miguel de Cervantes b) Leo Tolstoy Or c) William Shakespeare?

是a)米格尔·德·塞万提斯 b)列夫·托尔斯 还是c)威廉·莎士比亚?

Nikolai Gogol and Leo Tolstoy wrote more controversial plays.

果戈理和托尔斯创作的戏剧更具争议性。

And if its length intimidates you, just image how poor Tolstoy felt.

如果读大部头令你止步， 可以想象托尔斯写它时将多么痛苦。

She was from the family of Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer.

他的妻子出身于托尔斯家族，托尔斯是俄国文豪。

If it wasn't Emily Bronte, it could be Tolstoy or Gogol.

即使艾米丽·勃朗特不写托尔斯果戈理，也可能写种情节。

Tolstoy is not afraid to interrupt the narrative to pose insightful questions about history.

托尔斯并不担心打断原有的叙述而提出深刻的，关于历史的问题。

Tolstoy, a volcanic soul, was born to a famously eccentric aristocratic family in 1828.

托尔斯暴脾气的人，1828年出生于贵族家庭， 此家庭以性格古怪而闻名。

When Leo Tolstoy here wakes up, you might get him to revisit the idea of a new vocation.

等托尔斯醒来的时候，可以让他重新考虑一下职业。

Some see it as a c ounterpart to Leo Tolstoy's “War and Peace” (though it is more readable).

一些人把它与列夫·托尔斯的《战争与和平》相提并论，不过它更具可读性。

I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

我认为 托尔斯想要说明的是我们大多数人实际上就在伊万里奇的船上。

We're supposed to read war and peace by Leo Tolstoy and then write a book report about it.

我们要读列夫·托尔斯的《战争与和平》，然后写一篇读书报告。

Tolstoy has brought his characters to the year 1820,36 years before the events he originally hoped to write about.

书中的时间已经回溯到1820年，比托尔斯最初设想的1856年早了36年。

Lenny Bernstein, " War and Peace, " Tolstoy.

伦尼·伯恩斯坦，《战争与和平》，托尔斯。

So Tolstoy began writing, both about the big events of history and the small lives that inhabit those events.

因此，托尔斯决定了他既要描写历史上的重要事件，也要描写历史洪流中小人物的生活。

Yet elsewhere Tolstoy repudiates militarism and violence of all kinds.

然而在其他地方，托尔斯否认军国主义和各种暴力行为。

Where else was Tolstoy supposed to get his plot points?

托尔斯应该从哪里得到他的情节点？

Tolstoy had such a theory about history.

托尔斯对于历史有样的理论。

She might have found that Plato and Tolstoy had things to teach her.

她可能发现柏拉图和托尔斯有东西可以教给她。

Napoleon appears several times, and even one of Tolstoy's ancestors plays a background part.

拿破仑多次出现，甚至托尔斯的一位祖先也扮演了背景角色。

Consider the work of Tolstoy, for many Russia's finest novelist, and the world's.

想一想托尔斯的作品，对于许多俄罗斯乃至全世界最优秀的小说家来说。