![]() You’ve said your younger days were pretty much full of-am I getting this right?-"vulgar licentiousness." What do you mean by that? ![]() Oprah: Right, so this must be the new radical Lev Nikolayevich everyone's talking about. Tolstoy: I have forsworn women, drink and all animal foods. So, last time you were here it was all about Anna Karenina, which we loved. Tolstoy: No, my troika driver Timofey wore this every hour for 22 years straight, until the night of the wolves. I used discarded pieces of cloth and bits of Russian squirrel. Tolstoy: Yes, let no man be above the peasant. He's here to promote his Confessions and his latest heretical pamphlets on art and Christianity. He's a big-time novelist, the man who brought you our favorite, Anna Karenina, and blockbusters like War and Peace. Oprah: Now let's visit with our special guest today. ![]() 1 on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list.”-USA TODAY, June 9, 2004 ![]() "Last week, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was announced as the Oprah's Book Club summer selection. ![]()
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