Rosamund Bartlett

Sep 8, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Jane Austen |Charlotte Brontë |Leo Tolstoy |Rosamund Bartlett

It is a truth universally acknowledged that even if you already own a copy of a book, you can still be tempted by a different edition when you see it in a bookstore.

Aug 22, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Leo Perutz |Leo Tolstoy |Rosamund Bartlett

Leo Tolstoy, the 19th century Russian novelist who wrote—among others—the books War and Peace and Anna Karenina, is generally considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. Born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Tula, Russia, Leo Tolstoy first came to literary attention with the publication of a trilogy of autobiographical books (Childhood, Boyhood and Youth) while he was still in his twenties.

Jul 21, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Rosamund Bartlett

This review of The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen (Thames & Hudson) appears in the June 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. One hallmark of early 20th-century European modernism was the number of artist couples engaged in creative partnerships: Kandinsky and Münter in Munich, the Delaunays in Paris, Goncharova and Larionov in Moscow.