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TOLSTOY. By A.N. Wilson. Hamish Hamilton; 572 pages; 16.95 [British pounds]. Norton; $25

IN SEPTEMBER 1901 Leo Nicolayevich Tolstoy, aged 76 and recovering from two bouts of malaria that had nearly killed him, travelled to Gaspara on the southern shore of the Crimea. He was at the zenith of his achievement. Wherever the train stopped, people thronged to catch a glimpse of him, cheer him and wish him good health. The fact that he had been excommunicated in March and was w...

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