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- ↑ George Steiner (1959). Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism. Open Road Media. ISBN 9781480411913.
- ↑ Bartlett, Rosamund (2011). Tolstoy: A Russian Life. ISBN 978-0151014385.
- ↑ Grigoryan, Bella (20 February 2018). Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762–1861. ISBN 9781501757310.
- ↑ Wasiolek, Edward (1978). Tolstoy's Major Fiction. ISBN 9780226873985.
- ↑ Tolstoy, Graf Leo (1984). A Landowner's Morning ; Family Happiness ; and, the Devil: Three Novellas. ISBN 9780704324268.
