Leo Tolstoy
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 96
Language
English
Formats
Description
Napoleon's turbulent history with Russia including his doomed 1812 invasion provides the setting for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Often referred to as the greatest novel of all time, Tolstoy's classic follows the tumultuous personal lives of two aristocratic families touching on all of the great human epochs; youth, matrimony, age and death.
3) War & peace
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Epic portrayal of Tolstoy's novel of Russia during the Napoleonic invasion at the turn of the 19th century.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters in nineteenth-century New England; a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her sisters and her feelings for a brooding gentleman; the wife of a country doctor seeks happiness through romantic affairs and social climbing in nineteenth-century France; a woman abandons her child and husband for a handsome young officer, but soon she believes the officer has grown tired...