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  2. Anna Karenina - Wikipedia

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    Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.. Tolstoy called it his first true nove

  3. Sophia Tolstaya - Wikipedia

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    In 1889, Leo Tolstoy published his book The Kreutzer Sonata. [3] The book advocated for sexual abstinence. Its narrator murders his wife in a fit of jealousy. [15] Although quickly banned from publication by censorship, the novel had been assumed in the Russian society to be describing the unhappy marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Tolstaya, which greatly offended Tolstaya. [16]

  4. Leo Tolstoy bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Letters to Free Thought, a Bulgarian periodical (1901) Letter to Georgi Shopov (1901) Letter to the Tolstoy Society of Manchester, England (1901) Letter to an Orthodox Priest (1901) Letter to a French Pastor (1901) "On the Franco-Russian Alliance": A letter to Pietro Mazzini (1901) Letter to a Jew (1903)

  5. Rosamund Bartlett - Wikipedia

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    Rosamund Bartlett is the author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life (2010) and translated Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Oxford University Press (2014). She is also the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life (2004) and has translated two volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories. [4]

  6. The Adolescent - Wikipedia

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    Anna Andreyevna is a half-sister to Arkady and becomes the fiancée of Prince Nikolay. Katerina Nikolaevna Akhmakova is a young widow and romantic interest of both Versilov and Arkady. A letter sewn to Arkady's jacket could have dire consequences for her future. Liza is Arkady's sister. She became pregnant by Prince Sergey Petrovitch.

  7. King, Queen, Knave - Wikipedia

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    King, Queen, Knave is the second novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin) while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic.Written in the years 1927–8, it was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October 1928 and then translated into German by Siegfried von Vegesack as König, Dame, Bube: ein Spiel mit dem ...

  8. Rosemary Edmonds - Wikipedia

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    Her translation of Anna Karenina, entitled Anna Karenin, appeared in 1954. In a two-volume edition, her translation of War and Peace was published in 1957. In the introduction she wrote that War and Peace "is a hymn to life. It is the Iliad and Odyssey of Russia. Its message is that the only fundamental obligation of man is to be in touch with ...

  9. Paradox of fiction - Wikipedia

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    For example, although Walton argues for the denial of premise 1 because the reader does not literally pity the character Anna, he also questions the truthfulness of premise 2 because of cases of irrational emotion. [5] Despite the popular rejection of premise 2, academics are still interested in the paradox and seriously consider other ...