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• Great Books group discusses Tolstoy

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  The Great Books Discussion group will meet at the San Marcos Public Library on Monday to discuss the Second Epilogue to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
  5 days ago

• The Last Station

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 445
  Jane emails: We saw The Last Station , the story of Leo Tolstoy’s tempestuous marriage. The take away: you can’t live without love and you can’t live without it. Helen Mirren and the director were there afterward for a Q&A. Tolstoy had a long unkempt beard and dressed like crap. His wife told him he ...
  1 week ago

• Frequent function forsaken and the fractioned-phallus fallacy, Plus ça climate change, Tortured Tolstoys, Treasure Tove, and Tillyard on tarts in the TLS

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  “A paean to the penis offers much unintentional hilarity, says Leo Benedictus ” (reviewing Manhood: the Rise and Fall of the Penis by Mels van Driel in the Observer ): Why is there almost nothing on the penis’s most frequent function, as a conduit of urine? And as for rigour, well I am no urologist, but I ...
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• Bearding the Lion in Winter

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 126
  Norman Mailer remarked that the one kind of character no novelist can successfully conceive is a novelist better than himself. This line was brought to mind by a viewing of Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station” (which David Denby reviews in the magazine this week), a drama about the final days of Leo Tolstoy ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Life and Times of Mrs. Leo Tolstoy

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  Turns out that being married to Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy wasn’t always a recipe for a good time. Sure, there was the excitement of helping him realize his loftiest artistic ambitions, but Sofia Tolstoy , wife of 48 years and mother of the author’s 13 children, eventually discovered that she would lose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warrin’ Piece

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  The Current Cinema Love Hurts by David Denby Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren as the Tolstoys in Michael Hoffman’s movie. In “The Last Station,” Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man—Leo Tolstoy in his ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leo Tolstoy’s short stories – true pearls!

  
  1000petals... — Authority: 121
    Leo Tolstoy is mostly known for this great works like “War & Peace” or “Anna Karenina”, however he has left many short stories of great wisdom. Let me share with you one here. THREE HERMITS.   An OLD LEGEND CURRENT IN THE VOLGA DISTRICT ‘And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles ...
  2 weeks ago

• PM Quote of the Day — Leo Tolstoy

  
  Crossderry Blog — Authority: 109
  I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tricia’s Takes: News and Notes from the World of Film! Leo Tolstoy, the Oscars, and Rupert Everett’s weird advice

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  * ‘Tis the Season For Your Consideration : The Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees, with the much-ballyhooed abused-teen drama Precious and yet-to-be-released Leo Tolstoy biopic The Last Station leading with five nods each. Joining them for the Best Picture contest is (500) Days of Summer , ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Tolstoys: The Last Station

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 131
  A wife fights to maintain control of her husband’s intellectual property rights. A famous writer is financially manipulated by a cult-like group of utopians. Though the year is 1910 and the place is late Czarist Russia, the events of Leo Tolstoy’s final days have an odd resonance in today’s world. While Tolstoy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Helen Mirren nominated for best female lead at Independent Spirit Awards

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 2 (ANI): British actor Dame Helen Mirren has been nominated for the best female actress title at the Independent Spirit Awards.Mirren takes on Maria Bello, Nisreen Faour, Gwyneth Paltrow as well as Gabourey Sidibe in the best female lead category, reports the BBC.The legendary actress has been nominated ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 124
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Leo Tolstoy – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 140
  Art is not pleasure, or an amusement; art is a great matter. ~ in What Is Art? God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. ~ in Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On God, Love, Spirit, and Living a Good Life Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed ...
  4 weeks ago

• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 117
  November 24, 2009 Washington, DC   “Untitled” by Svet via Flickr Creative Commons ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/svet/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) Regardless of genre, length, historical epoch, setting, or other variables, what each of the Big Read titles has in common is sheer sticking power. It puts me in mind of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reel People: Helen Mirren is Sofya Tolstoy

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  The film is The Last Station written and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the novel The Last Station by Jay Parini . Sofya Tolstoy Sofya Tolstoy (or Sophia Tolstaya) is famous primarily for her marriage to Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of such classics as Anna Karenina and War And Peace . ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sunday Quotes 11.22.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 134
  “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy “In a moment of crisis we will not rise to the occasion, we will default to our training.” — Unknown “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quotes, Pics, and Clips VI

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 122
  I’m resurrecting an installment I used to do, a bite-sized anthology of things I had recently seen or been thinking about in the various areas that interest me.  Here are the first five parts of this series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.ARTSLike him or not, it’s fun watching Jackson Pollock [...]
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• Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre

  
  It's Not All Gravy — Authority: 122
  Maryann: Please join me in welcoming guest blogger, LK Hunsaker. Hi Maryann! It’s great to be here to talk with you and your readers today. Since your blog focuses on the absurdities of life, I thought I’d talk about Pushing Boundaries with Trauma and Genre. I’m a big fan of mainstream/literary fiction: those ...
  4 weeks ago

• t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept...

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 137
  t was a long time before she would get to sleep. She kept thinking that no one could understand all the things that she understood, & all that was in her. —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  5 weeks ago

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