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Arthur Leo Zagat was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction. Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally. Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner.

Krieg und Frieden ist ein historischer Roman des russischen Schriftstellers Leo Tolstoi. Er erschien zuerst 1868/69 in Moskau und gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Weltliteratur. Der zur Gattung des literarischen Naturalismus gehörende Roman wurde mehrfach verfilmt.

Love conquers all. And so does Caesar. Or will he conquer the new beautiful, young soldier with a body like Adonis? How could a beautiful young man from the countryside, who was drafted into the Roman legions, get the attention and favor of important men, and make his way up the chain...

Dieses eBook: "Krieg und Frieden + Anna Karenina (Zwei beliebte Klassiker der Weltliteratur in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Der Roman "Krieg und Frieden" wurde weltberühmt, weil er...

Dieses eBook: "Der lebende Leichnam" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Zur Handlung: Im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens steht der Russe Feodor Protasow, dessen Ehe mit seiner Frau Lisa weitgehend am Ende ist. Da die...

A classic non-fiction work by Leo Tolstoy, in which Tolstoy describes the social conditions of Russia in his day.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists. In this story Tolstoy has used the names of real people.

The Fruits of Enlightenment, aka Fruits of Culture (1889) is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It satirizes the persistence of unenlightened attitudes towards the peasants amongst the Russian landed aristocracy. In 1891 Constantin Stanislavski achieved success when he directed the play for...

"Kholstomer" is one of the most striking stories in Russian literature. It was started by Leo Tolstoy in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The story prominently features the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

This collection contains the following classic Russian novels: - Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Mother by Maxim Gorky

"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. It describes the struggles of three brothers and a sister with the Old Devil. The name "Ivan the Fool" hints to a popular hero of Russian folklore.

"You will come back though won't yere, Darren? Yer will come back? Say yer'll come back. Come back." Lucy is 17. She dreams of love, security and a bright future. But first she must confront reality - and reality means deciding who to trust. Leo Butler won the 2001 George Devine...

Leo Tolstoy's On the Significance of Science and Art is a compelling work by one of the world's most influential moral philosophers. Tolstoy critiques the art and science of the nineteenth century and asserts that they are based on coercion and violence. He preaches that Christianity and faith should instead form the fabric of society and intellectual life.

'God's Own Country' is a state of the nation Irish novel. It is set on the evening of the twenty-fifth anniversary ordination celebration of a local priest. It is composed of a range of riveting interweaving narratives before the characters are inextricably linked in the moving finale. It represents...