By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an
almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family
and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's
life, The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by
his wife and his leading disciple. Torn between his professed
doctrine of poverty and chastity on the one hand and the reality of
his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism
on the other, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too
ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes he
is dying alone, while outside over one hundred newspapermen are
awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Narrated in six different
voices, including Tolstoy's own from his diaries and literary
works, The Last Station is a richly inventive novel that dances
bewitchingly between fact and fiction.
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