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Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction
Another super-long classic makes the "Best Books of All Time" list.
About this book:
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).
Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of
War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem,
and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections of the
work, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion
rather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best Russian
literature does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to
call War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina
as his first true novel.)
The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg,
at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and
confidante to the queen mother Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main
characters and aristocratic families in the novel are introduced as
they enter Anna Pavlovna's salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov
is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, an elderly man who is
dying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled
in a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's
expense following his mother's death, Pierre is essentially
kindhearted, but socially awkward, and owing in part to his open,
benevolent nature, finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg
society. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his
father's favorite of all the old count’s illegitimate children.
Also attending the soireé is Pierre's friend, the
intelligent and sardonic Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky,
husband of Lise, the charming society favourite. Finding Petersburg
society unctuous and disillusioned with married life after
discovering his wife is empty and superficial, Prince Andrei makes
the fateful choice to be an aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail
Ilarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war against Napoleon.
The plot moves to Moscow, Russia's ancient city
and former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to
the highly mannered society of Petersburg. The Rostov family are
introduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov has four adolescent
children. Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes
herself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a disciplined young man who is
about to join the army as an officer. Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich
pledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old
cousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs. The eldest
child of the Rostov family, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat
haughty but has a good prospective marriage in a Russian-German
officer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) is nine and the
youngest of the Rostov family; like his brother, he is impetuous and
eager to join the army when of age. The heads of the family, Count
Ilya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an affectionate couple
but forever worried about their disordered finances.
At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate,
Prince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife
Lise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
and devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna
Bolkonskaya...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical
teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him
in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and
anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in
such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a
profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas
Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles - classic fiction
Why Poirot doe only show once in the top best books list from all the 87 times his character appeared in stories?
About this book:
The
Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie.
It was written in the middle of World War I, in 1916, and first
published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920.
Styles was
Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot,
InspectorJapp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot is described as "a
dear little man", "an extraordinary looking little man"
and a "quaint dandyfied little man".
The novel
is set in England at Styles Court, an Essex country manor (also the
setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case). Upon her husband's death,
the wealthy widow, Emily Cavendish, inherited a life estate in Styles
as well as the outright inheritance of the larger part of the late Mr
Cavendish's income. Mrs Cavendish became Mrs Inglethorp upon her
recent remarriage to a much younger man, Alfred Inglethorp. Emily's
two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife
Mary and several other people, also live at Styles. John Cavendish is
the vested remainderman of Styles; that is, the property will pass to
him automatically upon his stepmother's decease, as per his late
father's will. Lawrence Cavendish would also come into a considerable
sum of money. The income left to Mrs Inglethorp by her late husband
would be distributed according to Mrs Inglethorp's own will, which
she changed at least once per year. If she had not changed her will
since her marriage this would go to her husband.
Late one
night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying of
what proves to be strychnine poisoning. Hastings, a houseguest,
enlists the help of his friend Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the
nearby village, Styles St Mary. Poirot pieces together events
surrounding the murder. On the day she was killed, Mrs Inglethorp was
overheard arguing with someone, most likely either her husband,
Alfred, or her stepson, John. Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed
and, apparently, made a new will — which no one can find. She ate
little at dinner and retired early to her room with her document
case. The case was later forced open by someone and a document
removed. Alfred Inglethorp left Styles earlier in the evening and
stayed overnight in the nearby village, so was not present when the
poisoning occurred. No one knows exactly when or how the strychnine
was administered to Mrs Inglethorp... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Dame Agatha
Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12
January 1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short stories,
and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary
Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels
and more than 15 short story collections she wrote under her own
name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such
characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and
Tuppence. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The
Mousetrap. (source: Wikipedia)
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A. Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles
Where classic fiction introduces immortal characters.
About this book:
The Hound
of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to
April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West
Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the
legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson investigate the case.
This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in
"The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the
Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
Sir Charles
Baskerville, Bart, is found dead on the grounds of his country house,
Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing
for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir
Henry Baskerville, coming from Toronto, Canada to claim his
inheritance, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock
Holmes for help.
Mortimer
explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.
According to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and
describing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during
the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a
farmer's daughter. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his
bedroom. She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to
the devil if he could recapture her. Aided by friends, he pursued the
girl onto the desolate moor. Baskerville and his victim were found
dead. She had died from fright, but a giant spectral hound stood
guard over Baskerville's body. The hound tore out Baskerville's
throat, then vanished into the night.
Sir Charles
Baskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its
hellhound. Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for
someone when he died. His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,
while his footprints suggested that he was running away from
something. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned
to go to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the
footprints of a "gigantic hound" near Sir Charles's body,
nothing was revealed at the inquest...
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About the author:
Sir Arthur
Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish
physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories
about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered
milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for
writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented,
Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works
include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry,
non-fiction, and historical novels.
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Rough Estimate of the Annual Changes in Ocean Temperatures ... - OT, but I will be taking my son wild camping in the home of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" - that is Dartmoor UK - at the weekend and saw some interesting climate related history on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ...Better seeing what we don't see as we teach | Granted, and... - What is the equivalent of "hearing" the dog that, for once, doesn't bark, as Sherlock Holmes famously did in Hound of the Baskervilles? To what things do we as teachers in our own classrooms tend to be blind? Where should ...Discovering Sherlock Holmes in the Archives - The Center's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle papers include the handwritten manuscript for this story, as well as a manuscript page from the most famous Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Doyle papers also contain ...From the Stacks: The Great Detective | Walter Havighurst Special ... - Ten years later The Strand began serializing the classic novel Hound of the Baskervilles. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place was the last Holmes story to be published there in April of 1927. Although you can find a ...A Collection of Characters: Expanded Interviews - It was a mystery called The Dogs of Avalanche Hill (I had just finished reading The Hound of the Baskervilles), and I've loved telling stories ever since. One of my great hopes is that no one ever finds a copy of that novel.
Dante's Divine Comedy - classic fiction
How a super-long poem survived the Dark Ages to be a best book of all time.
About the Story:
The poem is written in the first person, and tells
of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from
the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the
spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and
Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.
Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and
admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love
tradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work La Vita
Nuova.
The structure of the three realms follows a common
numerical pattern of 9 plus 1, for a total of 10: 9 circles of the
Inferno, followed by Lucifer contained at its bottom; 9 rings of
Mount Purgatory, followed by the Garden of Eden crowning its summit;
and the 9 celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean
containing the very essence of God. Within each group of 9, 7
elements correspond to a specific moral scheme, subdivided into three
subcategories, while 2 others of greater particularity are added to
total nine. For example, the seven deadly sins of the Catholic Church
that are cleansed in Purgatory are joined by special realms for the
Late repentant and the excommunicated by the church. The core seven
sins within Purgatory correspond to a moral scheme of love perverted,
subdivided into three groups corresponding to excessive love (Lust,
Gluttony, Greed), deficient love (Sloth), and malicious love (Wrath,
Envy, Pride).
(Source: Wikipedia)
About the Author:
Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the
Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are
also known as "the three fountains" or "the three
crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian
language".
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Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo - classic fiction
How sudden wealth doesn't mean your problems are solved...
About this book:
The Count
of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure
novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Complete in 1844, it
is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three
Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot
outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
The story
takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean, and in
the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838. It begins
from just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returned to
power after his exile) and spans through to the reign of
Louis-Philippe of France. The historical setting is a fundamental
element of the book. An adventure story primarily concerned with
themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses
on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a
fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his
imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for
the innocent as well as the guilty.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - classic fiction
Where misfortune and romance intertwine to produce popular emotional appeal
About this book:
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and
was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the
pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and
Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and
portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and
Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a
meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they
experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution
of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and
sensibility have truly merged.
When Mr.
Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only
son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs.
Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are
left only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a
promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters;
however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to
renege. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new
owners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the
position of unwelcome guests. Mrs. Dashwood begins looking for
somewhere else to live.
In the
meantime, Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, a pleasant, unassuming,
intelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an
attachment with Elinor. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs.
Dashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money
rather than love. Mrs. Dashwood indignantly speeds her search for a
new home.
Mrs.
Dashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, near the
home of her cousin, Sir John Middleton. Their new home lacks many of
the conveniences that they have been used to, however they are warmly
received by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society, meeting
his wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings and his
friend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon. It soon
becomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and
Mrs. Jennings teases them about it. Marianne is not pleased as she
considers Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor
incapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else.
Marianne,
out for a walk, gets caught in the rain, slips and sprains her ankle.
The dashing, handsome John Willoughby sees the accident and assists
her. Marianne quickly comes to admire his good looks and outspoken
views on poetry, music, art and love. Mr. Willoughby's attentions are
so overt that Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood begin to suspect that the
couple are secretly engaged... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was
an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the
landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.
Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer. (source: Wikipedia)
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - now a Writers' Club classic fiction
Practical Common Sense might be missing, except in her humor-filled books.
About this book:
Pride and
Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The
story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with
issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in
the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman
living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near
London.
Though the
story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a
fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of
"most loved books" such as The Big Read. It has become one
of the most popular novels in English literature and receives
considerable attention from literary scholars.
The novel
centers on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a
country gentleman. Mr Bennet is a bookish man, and somewhat
neglectful of his responsibilities. Mrs Bennet is a woman lacking in
social graces and primarily concerned with finding suitable husbands
for her five daughters. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is
distinguished by the kindness of her attitudes; Elizabeth Bennet, the
second daughter, shares her father's keen wit and occasionally
sarcastic outlook; Mary is studious, devout and aspires to be
musical; Kitty, the fourth sister follows where her younger sister
leads, while Lydia is flirtatious and unrestrained.
The
narrative opens with news in the Bennet family that Mr Bingley, a
wealthy, charismatic and social young bachelor, is moving into
Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley is soon well
received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first
impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they
attend (he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation).
Mr Bingley singles out Jane for particular attention, and it soon
becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other,
though Jane does not alter her conduct for him, confessing her great
happiness only to Lizzie. By contrast, Darcy slights Elizabeth, who
overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment.
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen
(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose
works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a
place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her
historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer.
(source:
Wikipedia)
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werewolf » Zombie Love: Chewing on the Entrails of Genre - In that context, I'm particularly intrigued by the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Graeme-Smith. Jacob Murphy has written an article on the novel for the journal Alluvium comparing it, ...Jane Austen, Crazy Ants and Tricky Fish « Know - Last month, Janine Barchas, professor of English, and a team from the Liberal Arts Development Studio launched "What Jane Saw," an online exhibit, on the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice." The exhibit "will allow ...
Downton Abbey & Jane Austen; Or, in Praise of Lady Mary | Journal ... - With only three daughters, the Earl of Grantham lives a worry-free existence compared to Mr. Bennet of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Austen's gentleman (whose estate is also entailed away from his female offspring) ...
Pride and Prejudice named favourite book among English teachers ... - Pride and Prejudice has come out on top in a survey of UK English teachers' top 100 books for children - but only because the subject is dominated by female.
Class, Money, and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice | BritLit - Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is one of the most loved novels ever written. It continues to be near the top of lists of 'most loved.
Virtual gallery reconstructs art exhibit attended by novelist jane austen - The website takes advantage of the current digital toolkit to help transport visitors back to a specific event in 1813, the same year when Austen published "Pride and Prejudice." Today, the paintings that took part in that exhibit ...
Author event: Celebrating Pride and Prejudice - Wednesday 1 May ... - On January 28, 1813, Jane Austen received her copy of the book that she called her "darling child". Getting Pride and Prejudice into print had not been an easy task - though it would make Austen her fame, if not her fortune.
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