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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoys view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoys philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery.
2) The idiot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 56
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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation,...
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1932
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A day in the country -- Old age -- Kashtanka -- Enemies -- On the way -- Vanka -- La Cigale -- Grief -- An inadvertence -- The black monk -- The kiss -- In exile -- A work of art -- Dreams -- A woman's kingdom -- The doctor -- A trifling occurrence -- The hollow -- After the theatre -- The runaway -- Vierochka -- The steppe -- Rothschild's fiddle.
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...
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