Sentences with phrase «novel war and peace»

To put our collection of e-readers through their paces, we downloaded one of the great works of Western literature that we've somehow never found time to read: Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel War and Peace.

For example, the Russian novelist, short story writer, and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy, author of the two monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, is reputed to his first novel War and Peace rewritten eight times.

Not exact matches

The Like function has saved me so much comment - typing over the years that I likely could have written a very quippy, War - and - Peace - length novel by now.»

It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw comparisons with another Russian masterpiece, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Serious or comic, historical or contemporary, War and Peace or Lucky Jim, all novels deal with ethical questions» because novels are about human beings making choices that have consequences.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

You want to give someone an idea of your personality, not make them read a War and Peace sized novel.

The BBC, the Weinstein Company, and production company Lookout Point are teaming up to produce a TV miniseries adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel «War and Peace,» according to Deadline.

Based on the real life of Confederate General John Bell Hood, the novel imagines Hood in the years after the war, crippled and trying to find peace despite his infamy.»

This novel - about the patterns of war and peace, about the forces that propel humans to wage war or to pursue reconciliation, about the impulse to create as well as destroy - will speak, like any good story, to perceptive, thoughtful readers, whatever their age.

As the novel moves between war and peace, Spain and London, its large cast of characters includes the serial adulterer and war hero the Duke of Wellington, and the émigrés Nathan Rothschild and Frederic Winsor who will usher in the future, creating a world brightly lit by gaslight where credit and financial speculation rule.

In Myers» fast, clever novel, a Civil War project in a Harlem school divides a class into Confederate and Union sympathizers — and a group of student slackers are tasked with mediating peace.

My Voyage currently holds the complete works of Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, three P.G. Wodehouse novels, every Sherlock Holmes novel and story, and two separate translations of «War and Peace,» plus a few contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction.

Both parts of the story congeal into an engaging whole, using the conventions and clichés of the visual novel genre to tell a story of love and loss in peace and war.