Leo Tolstoy : Resident and Stranger.

This serious and important book challenges the widely held view of Tolstoy as two radically different men, ``the pre-conversion artist and the post-conversion religious thinker.'' By using the later works to clarify the earlier ones, Gustafson argues persuasively for the essential coherence of Tolstoy's work, a coherence that stems from his religious thinking and his desperate life-long search for faith. This book is a remarkable piece of scholarship and should appeal both to scholars and the general public, especially those interested in Tolstoy's work, in theology, or in the history of ideas. Essential for research libraries and recommended for other large collections. Joyce S. Toomre, Russian Research Ctr. , Harvard Univ. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.