“As a middle aged man, I react differently to Tolstoy than I did when I first read War and Peace at about 15.”Read more... Niall Ferguson onHis Intellectual Influences Niall Ferguson, Historian “The reason I choseWar and Peaceis because it is the greatest novel of all time and I ...
It’s a book that feels strangely prescient (有先见之明的), even though it was first published more than 20 years ago. And it's a story of a young Afghan girl named Parvana whose family lives under Taliban rule. And it's really just the remarkable story of the lengths to which ...
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
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Woolf thought of a foiling device that would pair that highly sensitive woman with a shell-shocked war victim, a Mr. Smith, so that “the sane and the insane” would exist “side by side.” Her aim was to “tunnel” into these two characters until Clarissa Dalloway’s affirmations meet ...
The harvest of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novelFor Whom the Bell Tolls(1940), a substantial and impressive work that some critics consider his finest novel, in preference toA Farewell to Arms. It was also the most successful of all his books as ...
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Chapter 1: Do this and you’ll be welcome anywhere You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get people interested in you Example: a dog Know birthdays of your friends ...