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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

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Englisch
562164 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
685
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War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel can be generally classified as historical fiction. It contains elements present in many types of popular 18th and 19th century literature, especially the romance novel. War and Peace attains its literary status by transcending genres. Tolstoy was instrumental in bringing a new kind of consciousness to the novel. His narrative structure is noted for its "god-like" ability to hover over and within events, but also in the way it swiftly and seamlessly portrayed a particular character's point of view. His use of visual detail is often cinematic in its scope, using the literary equivalents of panning, wide shots and close-ups, to give dramatic interest to battles and ballrooms alike. These devices, while not exclusive to Tolstoy, are part of the new style of the novel that arose in the mid-19th century and of which Tolstoy proved himself a master. War and Peace tells the story of five aristocratic families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins and the Drubetskoys—and the entanglements of their personal lives with the then contemporary history of 1805 to 1813, principally Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. The Bezukhovs, while very rich, are a fragmented family as the old Count, Kirill Vladimirovich, has fathered dozens of illegitimate sons. The Bolkonskys are an old established and wealthy family based at Bald Hills. Old Prince Bolkonsky, Nikolai Andreevich, served as a general under Catherine the Great, in earlier wars. The Moscow Rostovs have many estates, but never enough cash. They are a closely knit, loving family who live for the moment regardless of their financial situation. The Kuragin family has three children, who are all of questionable character. The Drubetskoy family is of impoverished nobility, and consists of an elderly mother and her only son, Boris, whom she wishes to push up the career ladder. [mehr]

Stichwörter: war and peace, leo tolstoy, classic literature, historical fiction, napoleon, russian history

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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

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Englisch
2 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
628
15

A great novel

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Leo Tostoy, Aylmer Maude War and Peace (Illustrated)

Historisches
Englisch
562488 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
127
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War and Peace (Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ», Voyna i mir) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work, Anna Karenina (1873–1877). War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version of the novel, then known as The Year 1805, were serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its list of the Top 100 Books. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 20 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections of the work, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion rather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best Russian literature does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel.) [mehr]

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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy

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Englisch
562416 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
257
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"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news." It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. [mehr]

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Lev Tolstoy War and Peace

Drama
Englisch
2 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
592
5

One of the biggest classics of Tolstoy ..

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BR Sunkara War and Peace

Life is war and find peace if you can

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Englisch
1165 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
274
1

I am an above middle class man, so I can go by bus to my office. All the bellow middleclass people have their own two-wheelers and other vehicles, some people have even four-wheelers also. I am perfect above middle class man, so I have to go by bus only. Again I am made to be a soldier and catch some bus to reach office in time. If I fail, my officer looks at me as if asking that if you cannot travel in City Buses properly, how can you live and drag your family all your life in the ever existing wars of life. The looks look like the guns to shoot straight in the heart. Then you have to feel like beheaded without mercy. [mehr]

Stichwörter: war peace life struggle

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Hugo Grotius The Rights of War and Peace

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Englisch
164812 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Hugo Grotius (/ˈɡroʊʃiəs/; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ɣroːt]), was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, historiographer, poet, statesman and diplomat. [mehr]

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Simon Lake The Submarine in War and Peace

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Englisch
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Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 – June 23, 1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect [mehr]

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Simon Lake The Submarine in War and Peace Its Development and its Possibilities

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Ab 18 Jahren
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Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 – June 23, 1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect [mehr]

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Winter Nyala Poems

Love, hate, war and peace...

Lyrik und Poesie
Englisch
2585 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
245
5

A book of poems. Some about love, some about war. Some are just there. Some will bring pain. [mehr]

Stichwörter: streaming, crystal, poems, love, hate, joy, laugh, laughter, pain, happiness, sadness

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