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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living.
A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat.
Les misérables: 1935 and 1952 adaptations of the Victor Hugo classic...
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Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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"As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality. From the breakfast sausage in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods to chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream from Jonathan Franzen's The...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 21 cm
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"Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale meets Anna Karenina, a vivid and captivating novel of love, war, and the resilience of one woman's spirit...England, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising pianist, she now has a handsome husband, a young son she adores, and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then, on the eve of war, a film crew arrives in her coastal town. She falls in love. The consequences are...
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"Boris Pasternak's widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom the New York Review of Books declared. 'the English-speaking world is indebted.' ... First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the...
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