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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. 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]

  5. Volver a caer - Wikipedia

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    Volver a caer ([bolˈβeɾ a kaˈeɾ], "Falling Again") is a Mexican streaming television series based on Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina. [1] The series stars Kate del Castillo, Maxi Iglesias and Rubén Zamora. [2] It premiered on Vix+ on 20 January 2023. [3] [4]

  6. 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 ...

  7. War and Peace - Wikipedia

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    In 1879, unhappy with Ganzen having chosen Anna Karenina to start with, Goncharov insisted: "War and Peace is the extraordinary poem of a novel, both in content and execution. It also serves as a monument to Russian history's glorious epoch when whatever figure you take is a colossus, a statue in bronze.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Yasnaya Polyana - Wikipedia

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    Tolstoy wrote War and Peace at Yasnaya Polyana between 1862 and 1869, and wrote Anna Karenina there between 1873 and 1877. He wrote the novels in his study by hand in very small handwriting, with many additions and deletions and notes, and gave the draft to his wife, who made a clean copy at night, which Tolstoy then rewrote the next day.