Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476789479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476789479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476789479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
War and Peace
Author: Лев Толстой (граф)
Publisher:
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
Book Description
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
Publisher:
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
Book Description
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.
War and Peace
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Sale of the Century
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
In the 1990s, all eyes turned to the momentous changes in Russia, as the world's largest country was transformed into the world's newest democracy. But the heroic images of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of Moscow's White House soon turned to grim new realities: a currency in freefall and a war in Chechnya; on the street, flashy new money and a vicious Russian mafia contrasted with doctors and teachers not receiving salaries for months at a time. If this was what capitalism brought, many Russians wondered if they weren't better off under the communists. This new society did not just appear ready-made: it was created by a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers. The oligarchs were fast-talking businessmen who laid claim to Russia's vast natural resources. The young reformers were an elite group of egghead economists who got to put their wild theories into action, with results that were sometimes inspiring, sometimes devastating. With unparalleled access and acute insight, Chrystia Freeland takes us behind the scenes and shows us how these two groups misused a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. Their achievements were considerable, but their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. Along with a gripping account of the incredible events in Russia's corridors of power, Freeland gives us a vivid sense of the buzz and hustle of the new Russia, and inside stories of the businesses that have beaten the odds and become successful and profitable. She also exposes the conflicts and compromises that developed when red directors of old Soviet firms and factories yielded to -- or fought -- the radically new ways of doing business. She delves into the loophole economy, where anyone who knows how to manipulate the new rules can make a fast buck. Sale of the Century is a fascinating fly-on-the-wall economic thriller -- an astonishing and essential account of who really controls Russia's new frontier.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
In the 1990s, all eyes turned to the momentous changes in Russia, as the world's largest country was transformed into the world's newest democracy. But the heroic images of Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of Moscow's White House soon turned to grim new realities: a currency in freefall and a war in Chechnya; on the street, flashy new money and a vicious Russian mafia contrasted with doctors and teachers not receiving salaries for months at a time. If this was what capitalism brought, many Russians wondered if they weren't better off under the communists. This new society did not just appear ready-made: it was created by a handful of powerful men who came to be known as the oligarchs and the young reformers. The oligarchs were fast-talking businessmen who laid claim to Russia's vast natural resources. The young reformers were an elite group of egghead economists who got to put their wild theories into action, with results that were sometimes inspiring, sometimes devastating. With unparalleled access and acute insight, Chrystia Freeland takes us behind the scenes and shows us how these two groups misused a historic opportunity to build a new Russia. Their achievements were considerable, but their mistakes will deform Russian society for generations to come. Along with a gripping account of the incredible events in Russia's corridors of power, Freeland gives us a vivid sense of the buzz and hustle of the new Russia, and inside stories of the businesses that have beaten the odds and become successful and profitable. She also exposes the conflicts and compromises that developed when red directors of old Soviet firms and factories yielded to -- or fought -- the radically new ways of doing business. She delves into the loophole economy, where anyone who knows how to manipulate the new rules can make a fast buck. Sale of the Century is a fascinating fly-on-the-wall economic thriller -- an astonishing and essential account of who really controls Russia's new frontier.
Imaginative Literature
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Never Never
Author: Brianna Shrum
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
ISBN: 9781633920392
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a story about a boy who had no choice but to grow up in Neverland: the story of Captain Hook and his existence in a world where everyone hates adults and loves Peter Pan, except him.
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
ISBN: 9781633920392
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a story about a boy who had no choice but to grow up in Neverland: the story of Captain Hook and his existence in a world where everyone hates adults and loves Peter Pan, except him.
Imaginative Literature II from Cervantes to Dostoevsky
Author: Mortimer J. Adler, Seymour Cain
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Great Ideas Program: Imaginative literature
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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