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(0)Leo Tolstoy
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Language
Russian
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Description
Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written.
Anna Karenina is one of the world's greatest novels, both an immortal drama of personal conflict and social scandal and a vivid, richly textured panorama of nineteenth-century Russia.
Full-text Russian-language edition with interactive comments.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
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Language
English
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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...
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.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Russian
Description
"In pre-revolutionary Moscow, Anna (The Cranes Are Flying's Cannes award-winning Tatiana Samoilova), a beautiful young aristocrat, languishes in a loveless marriage to Karenin, a powerful politician and highly visible public figure. When her brother Stiva invites scandal in an impetuous affair with his children's governess, Anna sympathizes with Stiva's faithful wife Dolly. But when Anna's head is turned by the dashing Count Vronsky (Vasili Lanovoy),...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tolstoy's portrait of 1880s Russian society life. Anna is discontented in her marriage to the older Karenin. While visiting her brother, she meets the dashing cavalry officer Count Vronsky. While initially uncertain about her feelings, she soon throws caution to the wind and embarks on a passionate affair with Vronsky.
10) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in late 19th century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Series
Criterion collection volume 983
Language
Russian
Description
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 in Russia. The film conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and epic breathtaking battles.
12) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.