War and Peace - one of the greatest novels in the world, written by giant of Russian literature count Leo Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy, the son of Count Nicholas Tolstoy, was born in 1828 at the family estate Yasnaya Polyana about 100 miles south of Moscow. His greatest novel War and Peace was published in ...

Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember draws out many emotional responses two of which are happiness and sadness. The happiness didn't just come from various instances in the story, but came from the story as a whole. When Landon says, "It was, I remember, the most wonderful moment of ...

Anna and Levin both experience epiphanies at the end of the novel. Their visions are very different though, which is ironic because Tolstoy portrays Anna and Levin as doubles. The ending creates a contrast and shows how two similar people can end up in very different situations. Passion is a major t...

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, told the story of the harsh times during the two years immediately before the Armistice ended World War I in November 1918. The story begins in the year of 1916; World War I had been already underway for two years. From the launch of these hor...

In the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Arcady plays a major role both in his own life and the lives of others. Arcady, despite the shield he surrounds himself with, is not a true Nihilist like his friend Bazarov through his thoughts and actions we see his change. To begin, Arcady ...

In the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Arcady plays a major role both in his own life and the lives of others. Arcady, despite the shield he surrounds himself with, is not a true Nihilist like his friend Bazarov through his thoughts and actions we see his change. To begin, Arcady shows ...

In Memory of BazarovThe characterization in the novel, Fathers and Sons written by Ivan Turgenev, is extremely important in helping the reader to understand the true meaning of the novel. These characters deeply develop their own sense of who they really are ad end up where they do, all thanks to o...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's life was dark and dramatic as his novels were. His father's drunken brutality led to his murder by his own serfs. At the age of 28 he was imprisoned for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas. He was in prison for ten years. While in prison he made ...

The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. From the very opening chapters, where a watchman is accidentally run over by a train at Moscow's Petersburg station, to the final, climactic scenes of arbitrary destruction when Levin searches for Kitty in a forest beset by lightning,...