Leo Tolstoy
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
5) Philipok
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
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.