War and Peace (eBook)

Leo Tolstoy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
2130 Seiten
Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-7347-1532-7 (ISBN)

Infos

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-I really believe he is Antichrist-I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you-sit down and tell me all the news."
It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Schlagworte: Classic • historical fiction • History • Russian Literature
• ISBN-10: 3-7347-1532-6 / 3734715326
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7347-1532-7 / 9783734715327