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Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy's prose "so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon."

NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy's prose "so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon."

NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

Vladimir Nabokov was right when he called Tolstoy's prose "so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon."

NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

In November, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro held a 24-hour-long reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which made national headlines.

Oral readings help college students comprehend difficult texts 2011

There are postcards of Tolstoy's burial in 1910; Lady Ottoline Morrell's snapshot of children dancing around like raving maenads; a scrapbook of images by a teenage boy titled "Girls I Have Known"; and a 1918 aerial view of a bombarded French village from World War I, taken by Steichen, who had helped organize the U.S. Army's Aerial Reconnaissance Division.

From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011

We strive, as Tolstoy's characters strive, for coherence and cohesion between our thoughts and our actions but life rarely plays out that way.

Nina Sankovitch: War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books Nina Sankovitch 2011

Happiness, sorrow, pleasure, comfort, duty, greed, birth and death, war and peace: all these emotions and events are explored by Tolstoy's characters and illustrated by scenes of compassion and love and sacrifice, as much as by scenes of anger and stupidity and impulse.

Nina Sankovitch: War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books Nina Sankovitch 2011

Nor does one need a musical accompaniment to feel the true power, for example, of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Melville's "Moby Dick," Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" or, yes, the Old and New Testaments and a long line of fabulous works of the imagination created by authors who have enriched our lives and given us insight and knowledge into the human condition.

Warren Adler: The eBook Intrusion Warren Adler 2011

Happiness, sorrow, pleasure, comfort, duty, greed, birth and death, war and peace: all these emotions and events are explored by Tolstoy's characters and illustrated by scenes of compassion and love and sacrifice, as much as by scenes of anger and stupidity and impulse.

Nina Sankovitch: War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books Nina Sankovitch 2011

We strive, as Tolstoy's characters strive, for coherence and cohesion between our thoughts and our actions but life rarely plays out that way.

Nina Sankovitch: War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books Nina Sankovitch 2011