Word: tolstoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TOLSTOY (836 pp.) - Ernest J. Simmons-Little, Brown...
Even when turn-of-the-century artists tried to get the dramatic realism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky into painting, none got much closer than Painter Ilya Repin's stagy Ivan the Terrible...
...Thomas Dixon's The Clansman was filmed as Birth of a Nation; Sir James Barrie's Admirable Crichton became a movie called Male and Female (1919); Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was retitled Love (1927); James M. Cain's Baby in the Icebox was filmed as She Made...
Rachmaninoff: Songs (Jennie Tourel, accompanied by Erich Itor Kahn; Columbia, 6 sides). Mezzo-Soprano Tourel's eerie interpretation of Pushkin, Alexis Tolstoy and Victor Hugo verses is outstanding in the current rash of Rachmaninoff. Performance: excellent...
...overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...