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1) Resurrection
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Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Tolstoy based "Resurrection", the last of his novels, on a true story of a philanderer whose misuse of a beautiful young orphan girl leads to her ruin. Fate brings the two together many years later and the meeting awakens the man's moral conscience. Anger, intimacy, forgiveness, and grace result. While the situation of Tolstoy's plot is alien to most people, his nuanced treatment of mortal life is familiar to all. Late in his life Tolstoy confessed...
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Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 591
Language
English
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Tolstoy's first novel, originally published in three successive volumes, tells of the journey of an aristocratic Russian boy from childhood through young adulthood, detailing his emotional growing pains, inner conflicts, sensitivities, and relationships with adults, and focusing on the conflict between natural truth and social conventions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
"At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes--conflict...
5) Resurrection
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Traces the conflict of pride and affeciton between Katusha, a prostitue charged with murder, and her first lover, Nekhludov, who serves on the jury at her trial. With its theme of fallen man and a non-Christian process of regeneration, the novel presents a panorama of Russian life at the end of the nineteenth century, shot through the spiritual intensity and material deprivation.
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