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Leo Tolstoy

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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married …

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Ang War and Peace o Digmaan at Kapayapaan ay isang bantog na nobelang isinulat ni Leo Tolstoy, isang manunulat na Ruso. Patungkol ito sa apat na mga mag-anak ng mga maharlika sa Rusya noong panahon ng mga digmaan na kinasasangkutan ni Napoleon, at kung paano nila hinarap ang digmaan at ang bawat isa sa kanila. …

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Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and affection...vanity and love -- one by one, in this volume of great …

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Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced and then abandoned when she was a young servant girl. Racked with guilt at realizing he was the cause of her ruin, he determines to appeal for her …

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Ang War and Peace o Digmaan at Kapayapaan ay isang bantog na nobelang isinulat ni Leo Tolstoy, isang manunulat na Ruso. Patungkol ito sa apat na mga mag-anak ng mga maharlika sa Rusya noong panahon ng mga digmaan na kinasasangkutan ni Napoleon, at kung paano nila hinarap ang digmaan at ang bawat isa sa kanila. …

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When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of …

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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form …

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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, …