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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is the story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing. A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
This volume offers a thematic account of Russian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy, technique, gender and theory.
8) The gift
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet, seeks fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin in the 1920's.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 89
Publisher
Literary of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), the longest of Nabokov's novels, is a witty and parodic account of a man's lifelong love for his sister. All of his favorite themes and most characteristic techniques are woven into this culminating work of Nabokov's imagination. Transparent Things (1972) is a haunting novella of the anguished life of Hugh Person, a young American editor and proofreader: his marriage, the murder of his wife, and his lone journey...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1998].
Language
English
Description
A trio of novellas on the Russian Revolution. One is set at the dawn of the revolution, a second describes the flight from its turmoil and a third, The Big City, is set in New York and deals with the experience of exile and the loneliness of immigrant life. Zoya Andreyevna -- The big city.
18) Lolita
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Series
Language
English
Description
The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of...