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Dramatization of Tolstoy’s War and Peace

I never new there was a theatre version of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy before, but I just came across an announcement about the Prague German Language Theatre Festival – and apparently there is – though it’s in German. I wonder if anyone would do an English version. Somehow I can’t quite see it coming to the West End of London – they’d have to do a musical version of it for that to happen!

With 12 actors playing 80 roles it does sound like they must have managed to capture quite a lot of the novel.

Although I have read War and Peace a few times, I have never seen any of the film versions. I think compared to some other great big books, I’m thinking Lord of the Rings here, War and Peace may be even harder to convey in dramatic form.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – new Page on Praeter Naturam (marklord.info)
An Examination of The Presence of War and Peace in Today’s World (socyberty.com)
War and Peace (yukihime03.wordpress.com)
What is Leo Tolstoy’s contribution to English prose (wiki.answers.com)

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – new Page on Praeter Naturam

November 6, 2011 Mark Leave a comment

Following on from my posting of information about Leo Tolstoy’s The Cossacks, I have now created a new page about one of Tolstoy’s greatest classics: War and Peace.

War and Peace is one of those novels that a lot of people think about reading, but never get round to, probably being put off by the sheer size of the thing. But it’s really a page-turner in my opinion. If you have any interest in either human relationships, warfare or history, then War and Peace I would say is a must read for you.

On my War and Peace page I provide a bit more information about the book, and links to the first chapter, a list of characters and a bibliography for further reading.

A number of eBook editions of War and Peace are available as well asprinted versions. I’ll leave it to you take your choice.

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy (marklord.info)
What is Leo Tolstoy’s contribution to English prose (wiki.answers.com)
The wisdom of Kutuzov (davidrajakovich.wordpress.com)
An Examination of The Presence of War and Peace in Today’s World (socyberty.com)

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The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

November 4, 2011 Mark Leave a comment

As well as Science Fiction and Fantasy I also love many works of classic literature, and probably my favourite author is Leo Tolstoy – specifically his great works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but also some of his lesser known fiction like The Cossacks.

To that end I have started populating some information about these books on the site. I’ll soon be putting up some information about War and Peace, but for now why not go and find out more about The Cossacks? It’s a delightful novella and a great introduction to what Tolstoy is all about.