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...started on “Anna Karenina” out of pure boredom. My copy of the 900-page Tolstoy epic, a remnant of my mother’s college days, had crinkled yellowed pages and minuscule font. I fully expected to abandon it after a few pages. But I was drawn in by the lush portrayal of 19th-century aristocracy, the disturbed internal monologues of the protagonists, and the philosophical reflections on farming. For me, Anna’s romantic set-up was merely the framework upon which a richer novel could unfold...
...Wild” traces the steps of a young Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in the 1990s, took on an ascetic lifestyle, searched for something by embracing nothing, and ventured head first into the west. There he meet fellow wanderers and explores the philosophies of heroes like Leo Tolstoy and Jack London. The true story of “Into the Wild” explores McCandless’s infatuation with Jack London’s vision of wilderness, which he uses as a way to escape the constant annoyance of his parents and society. His journey is illuminated...
...don’t quite agree with Tolstoy, that leaders are nothing but the playthings of deterministic forces and chance,” Hyman said last year, “but there’s an enormous volume of bottom-up planning effort...
...when he has some spare time." Martel concedes that the Prime Minister has a lot of demands on his time, but he is not willing to excuse Harper from his homework assignments entirely and notes that the two books he has sent so far are relatively short. The first, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, is only 60 pages...
...template of organic life in the elegant double helix of the DNA molecule, Western science has illuminated the vastest contours and the most infinitesimal particles of the universe. The arts, surely, are more subjective, but Saul Bellow puts it well when he quips, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad to read...