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...But no one, I think, caught Napoleon’s essence quite as perfectly as Tolstoy in War and Peace....
...More than a decade before War and Peace (1869), Leo Tolstoy drew on his Crimean war experiences to write Sevastopol Sketches....
...solidarity / From Mukul Sheopory, Mountain View, CA, USA botanical memoir about much more than gardening / From Jane MacCuish, London NW1, UK Gardening columnist has empathy of a war reporter / From Peter Thomas...
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...Given all that there is to be gloomy about, Thomas Piketty strikes a surprisingly optimistic note in A Brief History of Equality (Belknap, April) in which the celebrated French economist delivers a “sweeping...
...Last night before I went to sleep I finished my reading of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, 960 pages of it, in the English translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude....
...BBC series such as its 1972 TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and The Pallisers, its 1974 version of Anthony Trollope’s novels, set the tone for what followed....
...Central bankers do it all the time / From Heather Thomas, London EC2, UK...
...The debate had been initiated in the 19th century, with its roots in Marx and Engels, and it is already visible in the works of Tolstoy and Turgenev....
...Currently I am tackling Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman....
...English, French and German literature could be great, observed Thomas Mann, but Russian literature was holy....
...The evening brings together Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Janáček’s string quartet of the same name and Tolstoy’s novella, The Kreutzer Sonata....
...The distinction, made by Isaiah Berlin in his essay on Tolstoy’s view of history, is between “foxes” who know many little things and “hedgehogs” who know one big thing....
...The new play, opening at the Watford Palace Theatre, tells the story of a young Quaker who is forced to confront his beliefs against violence when he becomes friendly with founding father Thomas Jefferson...
...Maugham, Jerome K Jerome and Thomas Hardy....
...The greatest of all the historical novelists, Tolstoy, was himself a compulsive trawler through the archive....
...The Jefferson of the title is Thomas Jefferson and the story is that of a young Quaker who finds his beliefs conflicted when he both befriends Jefferson and falls in love with a runaway slave woman who is...
...The ultimate such projection belonged to Tolstoy, who quite literally rewrote the gospels, purging them of miracles....
...He tells of his inability to write about nature, expressing admiration for Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Hardy and their evocative descriptions of the countryside....
...(Speaking in 2007, Bloom claimed that in his prime he could read 1,000 pages an hour, enabling him to digest Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina over lunch, if he so wished....
...His wife Eleo delivered the corrected proofs of his version of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession to WW Norton the day before he died....
...It is the perfect place to watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterly The Master....
...‘Correction’ by Thomas Bernhard (1975) Bernhard’s novels enjoy the rare distinction of being among the most philosophically drenched and the funniest ever written....
...It undoubtedly does not deserve the status of, for instance, the Nobel Prize for literature (never awarded to Leo Tolstoy or James Joyce) or the Nobel Prize for peace (awarded to Henry Kissinger, the EU...
...a role model for feminist intellectuals, a woman of amazing creative and emotional energy whose friends and lovers included Byron (a friend, not a lover), Benjamin Constant, Edward Gibbon, AW Schlegel, Thomas...
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