Q: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Sentence 1:Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel . Sentence 2:Instead , he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel .
A:
instead