I know who it is I jsut want to see if the kids of today know, instead of all of this crap they read and listen to
2006-08-28 15:56:33 · 12 answers · asked by jsweit8573 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The heroine, Natasha Rostova, for example, reaches her greatest fulfillment through her marriage to Pierre Bezukhov and her motherhood. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism
2006-08-28 16:54:57 · answer #1 · answered by pol_1121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy
2006-08-28 17:34:58 · answer #2 · answered by svasquez10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy
2006-08-28 16:03:01 · answer #3 · answered by twinkid2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy
2006-08-28 16:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tolstoy
2006-08-29 17:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by rhymer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy. I'm 50
2006-08-28 16:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy, but schools don't make kids read it these days. I read a lot of the classics when I was in school, but they were *never* on the reading list. Actually, I got in 'trouble' for reading Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) in HS for a book report because it wasn't on the 'approved reading list'...ie my teacher had never read it.
2006-08-28 16:06:49 · answer #7 · answered by DJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tolstoy. Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War: What is it good for?
2006-08-28 16:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by Jenn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teodor Dostoyevsky
2006-08-28 16:12:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leo Tolstoy... its not something normally recommended in reading class...
2006-08-28 17:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by sen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋