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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Miniserie de TV de 4 episodios. Adaptación televisiva de la novela homónima de Tolstoi. Ambientada en 1805, constituye un análisis de la sociedad rusa durante la era Napoleónica, combinando los hechos históricos con las experiencias privadas de diversos personajes. Una lujosa superproducción europea.
A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and a troubled relationship with his father and wife. Finds acceptance of her death and eventually...
Author
Pub. Date
1981, c1960
Description
Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an adoring mother to her young son, until she meets Count Vronsky, a young officer of the guards. He pursues her and she falls madly in love with him. Her husband refuses to divorce her, so she gives up everything, including...
27) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
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Description
This epic novel is centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. It expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence. Three of the characters, Natasha Rostov, Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy.
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
In Tolstoy's masterpiece, the gorgeous Anna Karenina is married to a significant government minister but falls in love with a prosperous army officer named Count Vronsky. Frantic for truth and significance in life, Anna recklessly defies the norms of Russian society, often smoking opium with her lover as she abandons her son and husband. Damned and detested by her peers, Anna finds herself increasingly jealous and unfulfilled.
30) Philipok
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Philipok's mother has told him that he is too young to go to school, but one day he sets out to go on his own.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Ten timeless Claymation stories featuring classic characters like Rip Van Winkle and The Velveteen Rabbit as well as adaptations of works by Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. Narration by Stockard Channing, James Earl Jones, and more. Includes: The Little Prince, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Star Child, God's Trombones, Michael the Visitor, The First Christmas, The Chimes, A Christmas Gift, Rip Van Winkle, and Martin the Cobbler.
The little prince: The Little...
33) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
35) Anna Karenina
Pub. Date
2004, 2000
Description
"This richly detailed film charts the tragic romantic triangle formed when the dashing Count Vronsky defies social conventions and falls into forbidden love with Anna, the ignored wife of an aristocrat. Soon, Anna's children--a son by Karenin and an illegitimate daughter by Vronsky--become pawns in Karenin's game to see that Anna pays a terrible price for her indiscretion."--Container.
Description
Restoration: Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until an affair leads to scandel, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
An ideal husband: A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
Her magesty, Mrs. Brown: John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship.
Tom & Viv: A...
38) War and peace
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Epic portrayal of Tolstoy's novel of Russia during the Napoleonic invasion at the turn of the 19th century.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.
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