His epic novel "War And Peace" features over 500 characters
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My Favourite Book, War And Peace Of Leo Tolstoy.  May 26, 2014 ... An article about War and peace, Leo Tolstoy's genius in War and Peace, ... novels written in different languages one could not compare the two since War ... of world literature Anna Karenina to his credit, War and Peace is centered on ... of that period encompasses more than 500 character sketches from...
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War and Peace: the 10 things you need to know (if you haven't ...  Jan 22, 2016 ... The characters in War and Peace endure extreme experiences, and emerge at the ... 3 The novel has a particular technical feature; it passes from mind to mind, showing ... Other characters will engage your sympathy over time; you may be deeply ... Tolstoy has immense care for his readers, and most of his...
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List of longest novels - Wikipedia  This is a list of the longest novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream ... In 2013, Robert Jordan's sprawling epic fantasy magnum opus, The Wheel of ... yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are ... Page counts are a relative indicator of length; for proper comparison the...
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Leo Tolstoy in Realism - Shmoop  Tolstoy was a Russian aristocrat who, despite his upper-class status, had a real ... big moral and philosophical questions, and his novels are truly epic in scope. ... War and Peace tells the story of various members of Russian society during the ... It's also got over 500 distinct characters, and not just one but two epilogues.
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Publishers weigh into War and Peace battle | World news | The ...  Oct 22, 2007 ... asks a character in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Almost 140 years after first publication of the epic novel a nasty duel has broken out ... war and peace clocks in at 1,267 pages and features all of the 500 or so characters ... But over the following three years Tolstoy revisited his draft, adding the digressions...
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Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Uris Leon  Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as ... A great war novel- but what idiot chose the artwork for this edition? ... and I won the 1970 lottery when my number didn't get picked, but I still honor the .... From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII,...
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Travels with an opera: Prokofiev's War and Peace - Royal ...  present writer's forty-year journey away from, and then back to, the Russian ... Throughout his life Prokofiev was captivated by opera as a medium: he wrote his .... The process of transforming War and Peace into a work which might find favour ... detail; two more scenes were added, now scenes 2 and 10; the last scene (13).
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Lev Tolstoy - Tchaikovsky Research  Apr 9, 2016 ... After his return to Russia in May 1861 he settled down on his .... and even photographs of the author of War and Peace were hard to ..... This story caused a sensation when it was first published and was soon banned by the ... Similarly, after reading the rather unpleasant play The Power of Darkness in...
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs ...  Published June 25th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published 1865) ...... It seems to me at this moment that I could turn the book over, open the front cover...
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Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set by Patrick O'Brian ...  Google Play .... The world that O'Brien has depicted, that of the British Navy during the .... I had already seen the movie with Russell Crowe and this book explained .... Patrick O'Brian wrote the definitive series of historical, nautical fiction and .... with Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin, the entire 20 audio books...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: War and Peace (1956) (Region ...  It's hard not to wonder what the then-new epic master, David Lean, might .... But this is once again more of a tribute to the novel than the film. ... Tolstoy's novel subsumed his characters to the larger story of a Russia under siege. ... 1968 Sergi Bondarchuk Mosfilm six-hour version of War & Peace also comes out on DVD.
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War and Peace - Wikipedia  War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded ... Tolstoy began writing War and Peace in the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate. The first half of the...
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Amazon.com: Heaven and Hell: Part Three of the Epic "North and ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. Wonderful . . . you're going to love Heaven and Hell. San ... This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare ... Love and War: Part Two of the Epic "North and South" Trilogy (The North and .... "Heaven and Hell" covers the years immediately following the surrender of...
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The 100 best novels: No 32  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ...  Apr 28, 2014 ... Joseph Conrad's masterpiece about a life-changing river journey to contact Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth, writes Robert McCrum. ... and also because the book takes its narrator (Charles Marlow), and the ... When Marlow finds him on his deathbed, he utters the famous and enigmatic last words:...
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Why is War and Peace considered such a classic? - Quora  War and Peace (1869 book) ... Why is War & Peace considered the greatest novel ever written? Are there other classic books longer than War and Peace? ... Which English translation of War and Peace by Tolstoy do native Russian speakers think ... Is Herman Wouk's Winds of War considered to be an American attempt at...
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Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk  Reviews, Discussion ...  In this huge novel of nearly 600 pages (from the author of The Caine Mutiny, .... based on Thomas Wolfe though the story is set in the 1940s ans 1950s. ... An epic story. ..... as were the others Wouk authored - War and Remeberance and Winds of War. .... Wouk joined the United States Navy and served in the Pacific Theater,...
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War and Peace - Book Nine: 1812 - Chapter IV - American Literature  Read Book Nine: 1812 - Chapter IV of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ... make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and ... Short Stories ... the village on a handsome sleek gray horse, accompanied by two hussars. ... He was so sure that he really was the King of Naples that when, on the eve of...
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Summary/Reviews: O'Hara's choice :  Fifty years after his first novel, Battle Cry, took the world by storm, Leon Uris ... son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself ... a heavier secret weight in his heart -- he'll save the corps and make his career. ... international bestselling author of such classics as Exodus, Trinity, and Battle Cry.
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Tom Clancy: The top five novels | Books | The Guardian  Oct 3, 2013 ... Tom Clancy, author of 17 New York Times bestsellers, died this week at the age of 66. Here are five key novels of his career. ... Clancy's debut introduces CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a tale of a ... as well as other authors  not by chance is the hero of 24 called Jack Bauer, ... The Bear and the Dragon (2000).
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, he hired a staff of about 20 ...  Jun 26, 2016 ... Completes the quote Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat... # Quiz ... Completes the Robert Browning line God's in his heaven-all's... # Quiz...
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Tolstoy's Life and Works  He was much in demand in the fashionable salons of the city. ... Shortly thereafter he began his first long novel, War and Peace, a work of colossal proportions which .... The literary career of this "great writer of the Russian land" (as his ... operation of the psyche found a more conventional outlet in Childhood (Detstvo, 1852),...