(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Leo Tolstoy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nikolai asks his animal friends to help him answer three important questions: "When is the best time to do things?" "Who is the most important?" and "What is the right thing to do?"
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the twilight of an empire, Anna Karenina ... the beautiful high-ranking wife of one of imperial Russia's most esteemed men ... has it all. But when she meets the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky ... there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot be ignored. She's immediately swept up in a passionate affair that will shock a nation and change the lives of everyone around her"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1966.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1886, Tolstoy presents simple, instructional tales intended for peasants and their children that address his philosophical critique of militarism and commercialism.
Seven tales by one of the world's greatest novelists. Grades 6 and up.
12) The kingdom of God is within you: Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life
Author
Publisher
Watchmaker Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
13) Anna K away
Author
Series
Anna K volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.