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How Leo Tolstoy Grappled With Both God And The Fear Of Meaning
10 Sep 2025 17:35 GMT
(ANALYSIS) Leo Tolstoy spent half a century avoiding … , Tolstoy turned to the one book he had avoided most of …
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‘A Pulp Fiction Textbook’: A novel styled like a textbook is as punishing as homework
06 Sep 2025 10:27 GMT
… you solve a theorem, the book begins with the assumption that … the publishing industry was colluding with Devadas to make reading a novel … philistine world wishes to quote Leo Tolstoy without ever having read him …
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Dierks Bentley Is Convinced Tim McGraw Pranked Him with Gift of Thick Russian Books: 'This Has to Be a Joke' By Marina Watts
03 Sep 2025 19:05 GMT
… and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, which he finished the day … a cardboard box full of books. Every book was this thick," he … continuned, demonstrating the book';s thickness with his … written in Russian, but a book about a Russian painter and …
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Everyday ethics: Books of the past can tell us about future
03 Sep 2025 09:06 GMT
… turn of time. Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist, believed that in … ’s 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451,” in which books were banned … published in 1951.
Lately I’ve been reading those old novels … author, turned to writing about one world order in a 1940 book …
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Stodgy corporate rule book is stifling growth, warns ASIC chief
02 Sep 2025 20:22 GMT
Australia’s Corporations Act has become too long and complex, while the implementation of measures to improve it has been too slow, says ASIC chairman Joe Longo, who is calling for an independent law reform group to be reconstituted to help boost …
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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
02 Sep 2025 10:25 GMT
… . And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy … ? He attempts to rescue banned books that are about to be … in his press, holding a book by Novalis of all people … the empire and its barbarians.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Why it’s …
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How Christ-like is a modern novel’s take on infidelity?
02 Sep 2025 09:59 GMT
… humor of her many novels. She has published numerous short stories and … ’s “Madame Bovary” (Fingerprint! Publishing, $5.99) or Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (Fingerprint … Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of several books. His latest novel, “The X-mas Files …
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Leo Tolstoy’s search for the meaning of life
15 Aug 2025 23:23 GMT
Long before Tolstoy experienced the psychological crisis that led to his decades-long effort to rethink Christianity, he was concerned with spiritual questions.
Anyone who has read his two great novels, “War and Peace" and “Anna Karenina," will …
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Keith McNally's 6 favorite books that have ambitious characters
26 Aug 2025 22:08 GMT
… #39;Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy (1878)
Nabokov once said that … 's groundbreaking espionage novel created a shadowy, existential … Dreiser (1925)
This classic novel explores the dark side … The book is an intensely detailed and closely observed novel of …
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Enam Ul Haque turns 80: A life filled with birds, books, and big adventures
25 Aug 2025 07:53 GMT
… . He excelled academically, receiving Leo Tolstoy's The Prisoner of … the moon landing was also published. His writing career only … and nature. His notable books include the essential " … golden letters in history.
Author Mohsinul Haque is a Senior …