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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
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'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Joining Edwardian London's famous Imperial Theatre against the wishes of her traditionally minded father, a talented actress is forced by betrayal to flee to St. Petersburg, where she lands in exile with her revolutionary-minded lover.