Henri Troyat, Author Dutton Books $22.5 (364p) ISBN 978-0-525-24406-6
While Troyat's leisurely biography ultimately succumbs to the gloominess of its protagonist, Chekhov's evolution as a writer unfolds here naturally. But his life is a litany of eternal dissatisfaction, failed romances, periodic withdrawals from the...
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Henri Troyat, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-525-24547-6
As is Troyat's proclivity, no barbarity goes unremarked; clearly this resurrectionist of Russian personages (Ivan the Terrible et al.) assumes that reader fascination with mortuary textures matches his own as he graphically, frequently, describes...
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Henri Troyat, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Translator Ballantine Books $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-90281-3
Troyat (Tolstoy) carefully traces the life of Russian playwright Chekhov. Unfortunately, PW found that this ""leisurely biography ultimately succumbs to the gloominess of its protagonist.'' (February)
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Henri Troyat, Author, Joan Pinkham, Translator Fromm International $11.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-88064-059-6
Troyat, the French biographer of Tolstoy and Gogol, turns his attention here to Alexander I, the young, liberal czar who in later years became a religious recluse, muzzled journalists, increased police surveillance and felt disenchanted and...
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Henri Troyat, Author, Joan Pinkham, Translator Viking Books $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-84450-0
The accomplished biographer of Chekhov, Peter the Great and Tolstoy here presents an elegant, skillfully researched study of the life and work of the great 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Although he was on intimate terms...
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Henri Troyat, Author, Lowell Bair, Translator Crown Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57237-5
French biographer Troyat here portrays the life of Alexey Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), Russian naturalistic novelist, short-story writer and playwright, who took the name Gorky (``bitter'') in 1892, when his first story was published. Compared...
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Henri Troyat, Author, Nancy Amphoux, Translator Dutton Books $18.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-525-24674-9
Ivan Turgenev was a misfit. Although Russian to the soles of his feet, he was happy only when living abroad. For decades he passionately pursued a stoop-shouldered soprano who responded only with kind words. He drew close to Tsar-hating conspirators,
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