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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Name: Leo Tolstoy
Birth Date: August 28, 1828
Death Date: November 9, 1910
Place of Birth: Tula Province, Russia
Place of Death: Astapovo, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Leo (Nikolaevich) Tolstoy
13391 words, approx. 44.6 pages
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes, and a projected new edition will reach at least 134...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
11293 words, approx. 37.6 pages
Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of Christi...
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Biography of Leo Tolstoy
2717 words, approx. 9.1 pages
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. Leo Tolstoy was one of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a l...


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War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 1865 Summary
8,304 words, approx. 28 pages
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 1865 Introduction War and Peace, by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, is often called the greatest novel ever written. It is certainly one of the longest, and its great length is one source of its enduring fame and reputation....
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War and Peace Information
4,782 words, approx. 16 pages
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a long novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of...


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The Boston Globe
War And Peace
05/31/2004: 495 words, approx. 2 pages
THIS DAY, dedicated to honoring the country's war dead, can also be a time to meditate on peace. The emotions are not mutually exclusive, although the labels "hawk" and "dove" seem to suggest otherwise. People are much more complex than labels. When they...
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The Washington Post
War, Peace
10/16/2002: 354 words, approx. 1 pages
Alfred Nobel was a man of war, but now people probably know him best for the prize he created to honor peace. Born in Sweden in 1833, Nobel invented dynamite in 1866. He held more than 350 patents for other inventions, and became...
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The New York Observer
The War Over War and Peace
8/23/2007: 1,383 words, approx. 5 pages
Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming to be the definitive version and the other claiming to be the long lost, more accessible first draft. The first translation, out on Knopf in...
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AP News
Jerusalem hotel witness to war and peace
12/11/2007: 302 words, approx. 1 pages
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators planned to resume peace talks Wednesday at the historic King David hotel, which has been at the center of fighting and peacemaking for longer than Israel has been a state or the Palestinians have been trying to build one.But Israel announced...
 


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