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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is both a novel of its time and a novel for all times. Its setting is the Russia of the late 19th century through which enormous historical and social changes are sweeping. A confrontation is raging between older, traditional values which sustain the aristocracy and newer, modern values. Tolstoy uses his novel of [...]

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Leo Tolstoy: Author and Anarchist

Students of military history, as well as many grumbling high school students, know Leo Tolstoy from his voluminous masterpiece, War and Peace, which follows the lives of 580 characters. Although War and Peace established Tolstoy as a legend, he authored around 90 volumes including his second masterpiece, Anna Karenina. In 1951 Tolstoy volunteered to go [...]

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