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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xxx, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Description
"In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy travelled to the Caucasus and joined the army there as a cadet. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and provided the material for the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol...
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