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(0)Leo Tolstoy
Author
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007], p2006
Language
English
Description
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. This novel examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Included are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007], p2006
Language
English
Description
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. This novel examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Included are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"At the twilight of an empire, Anna Karenina ... the beautiful high-ranking wife of one of imperial Russia's most esteemed men ... has it all. But when she meets the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky ... there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot be ignored. She's immediately swept up in a passionate affair that will shock a nation and change the lives of everyone around her"--Container.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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