Leo Tolstoy · 1878 · Romance
A married noblewoman in nineteenth-century Russia falls into an affair and finds that high society will not forgive her for it. Set against Tolstoy's parallel study of a landowner trying to figure out how to live honestly, it is one of the largest and most compassionate novels ever written.
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Leo TolstoyRussian · 1828–1910
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) wrote two novels widely considered among the greatest in any language — War and Peace and Anna Karenina — and dozens of shorter works that demonstrate the same compassionate observation at smaller scale.
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