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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and one of the greatest writers of realistic fiction during his time. His two most famous novels were War and Peace and Anna Karenina. From within autocratic Russia, Tolstoy fearlessly attacked social inequality and coercive forms of government and church authority.

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Anna Karenina

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"Anna Karenina" is a novel with a contemporary thematic in which the main theme is Anna's adultery because of which she get rejected from society and experiences a tragic end. Parallel to her story we follow up on the destructive love between Anna and Vronsky and the love story between Levin and Kitty based on […]

War and Peace

Summary  Leo Tolstoy

"War and Peace" is an epic novel about Russian society between 1805 and 1815, just before and after the Napoleonic invasion. Considered one of the greatest books ever written, it contains 559 characters, commemorates important military battles and portrays famous historical personalities but it's main theme is the chronicle of the lives of two main […]

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