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Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana. His family estate was at hundred miles south of Moscow. He made attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life and became the most prominent novelist and story writer in an age and place of great authors. In all his works we ?nd a con?uence of moral and intellectual errors that he perceived in modern life and thought at the turn of the twentieth century. We can keep Tolstoy's activity in threefold. He was an artist, who produces ?ctions in various genres and with various ends in view. He was a religious thinker and publicist, who develops and explains a philosophical system with ethical in its emphasis. More importantly, he was an aesthetician, who elaborates a theory of universal comprehensible art
ABSTRACT
Anita Nair is a novelist, poet, travel writer, essayist, short story writer and writer of stories for children. Her novels enforce cross cultural endeavors. They enlighten experiences having transcendental and inexhaustible diversity of forms such as barriers of language, cultures and identities. She is popular female writer who depict the present condition of women in society. She uses wit and humour. She has an exceptional and quite beautiful art of storytelling. She dives deep into human psyche to lead the reader to a wonderful journey. Her novels contain a very nebulous world which absorbs readers to a great extent. Her novels have stories of colorful and unique characters. She weaves experiences from day-to-day life into her charming stories. He r third novel 'Mistress' deals with human relationships, man- woman relationship and analyses pre-marital, marital, extra-marital relationships and estrangement between husband and wife.