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• António Lobo Antunes (Book Acquired, 5.15.2012)

  
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  I’ve never read anything by Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes, so I was psyched when his novel  The Land at the End of the World showed up in paperback. Here’s an excerpt from Larry Rohter’s review at the  NTY : Combat experiences are like Tolstoy’s unhappy families: no two are alike, which may be ...
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• What happened to the philosophical novel?

  
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  Jennie Erdal asks if the genre still has life in it: It seems the problem for philosophical novels these days is, well, their philosophicalness. Which is a pity, for the novel and philosophy have a great deal to give one another. Indeed, one of the things the novel does best is to depict people – fictional ...
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• Auster/Tolstoy: Winter Journal

  
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  James Meader senses affinities between Auster memoir and Tolstoys workPaul Auster, Winter JournalThe Picador Book Room takes a look at the galleys of Paul Austers new memoir, Winter Journal, and compares a moment in The Inventional of Solitude with Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Ilych: In The Invention of Solitude, it is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Lovely New Images of Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina

  
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  Reuniting with her Atonement and Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright, Keira Knightley returns to the big screen in one of the most highly-anticipated films of the year. Oscar-winning writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) is adapting Leo Tolstoy’s original novel, and now we have two lovely* new images of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pop Quiz! Match These Movies With Their Author References

  
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  One of the great joys of being a reader is finding literary references in unexpected places. See if you can match up these movies to the authors whose work appears in them…in one form or another. Answers are below. Scroll down when you’ve finished the quiz. A. American Pie 1. Alexandre Dumas B. The Devil’s [...]
  3 weeks ago

• 50 Quotes on Beauty

  
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  Beauty has many definitions. Edgar Allan Poe and Karl Lagerfeld found that there is no beauty without "strangeness". See what other famous people have said about beauty. read more
  4 weeks ago

• Coaching Quote of the Day 30th April 2012

  
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  “If you want to be happy, be.” (Leo Tolstoy)
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• John Mullans 10 of the best: trials

  
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  From Salem hysteria to racial prejudice in the Raj, here are some of the most memorable court scenes in literature The White Devil by John Webster Vittoria Corombona is tried for the murder of her husband, Camillo (who has in fact been killed at her brothers behest). In court she gives a feisty ...
  4 weeks ago

• Leo Tolstoy, Ernest H. Crosby, and Shakespeare

  
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  José Calvo González, University of Malaga, has published  Lev N. Tolstói & E. H. Crosby:Sobre la geografía de la recepcíon literaria y jurídico-social Tolstiana, con apunte acerca del reformista social norteamericano Ernest Howard Crosby (1856-1907).  at 2 Revista Europea de Historia de las Ideas ...
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• “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks...

  
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  “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy , a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories . Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina , are acknowledged as ...
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