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"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...
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Professor Jonathan Steinberg uses individual lives to explain a great historical transformation. Examines the development of the modern world with a focus on the Industrial Revolution and its explosion of science and technology. Also examines the birth of modern democracy. Lectures presented by Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania.
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