Leo Tolstoy
5) Philipok
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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.
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In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," a middle-aged judge falls gravely ill and is shunned by his materialistic family; and in "Confession," Tolstoy charts his own religious evolution from his rejection of the Orthodox Church to his embrace of spirituality.
In Carson's shimmering prose, these two transcendent works are presented in their most faithful rendering in English. Unlike so many previous translations that have tried to smooth out Tolstoy's rough...
9) Anna K away
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Anna K volume 2
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After the scandal surrounding the tragic death of her first love, Alexis, Anna K's father takes her to South Korea to "connect with family" but it feels more like exile. Back in the states, all her friends are spending their summers in different ways, but also each needs to face the reality of their relationships in order to move forward in the wake of last school year.
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From the New York Times bestselling Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us,...
11) War and peace
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Criterion collection volume 983
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A titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic tome in which the fates of three souls: the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha, collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, the director conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that...
12) Anna Karenina
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Tolstoy's romantic saga of the passionate affair between a married aristocrat and a dashing count.
14) Anna Karenina
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In Tolstoy's story of family passions in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks everything when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
16) Anna Karenina
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The wife of an aging Russian aristocrat falls for a dashing cavalry officer.
17) War & peace
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"A circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. ... Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, 'War and peace' follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej ... his bookish friend Pierre ... and the spirited but naïve Natasha ... . As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the horrors of the battlefield reach into the elegant ballrooms and bedrooms of Moscow."--
18) L'argent
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Criterion collection volume 886
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"In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence"--Container....
19) Anna Karenina
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Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
20) War & peace
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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.