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- 41: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... longtime friend Tawfiq al-Hakim. Mahfouz never studied abroad. His knowledge of the West and Western literary forms came primarily from his readings. A great admirer of the Russian masters Tolstoy, Turgnev, Dostoevsky, and especially Chekov, he equally well read in the French classics. Thomas Mann, Hemingway and Faulkner are also some of the major writers he generally esteems. A Brief ...
- 42: With Malice Toward None By Ste
- ... one hears the name of America uttered with such mystery as if it were some heaven or hell...but I heard this only in connection with the name Lincoln." --Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "In the days before antiseptic surgery, Lincoln had foreshadowed his own demise; his efforts to preserve the life of the nation had been successful at the cost of ...
- 43: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... a truly international status while working in the Russian language, although, ironically, his great fame beyond the borders of Russia came later than that of others who would follow him: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev, all of whom owed a great deal to Pushkin as their literary progenitor, were known throughout Europe and America before Pushkin's works were widely read outside ...
- 44: Stoic Death Themes Of In The N
- ... shame. He went along in life not taking anything from it to learn and to prosper as a good person. After graduating law school, he sowed "his wild oats", as Tolstoy puts it, among an aristocratic society. He moved up in rank and earned a raise in salary. This new power, although not taken advantage of, was accessible in Ilyitch's ...
- 45: The Future Of The Race
- ... s mission now requires complete reformulation. Du Bois also failed intellectually by not engaging Russian pre-Revolutionary thinkers and the writing of Central European Jews between the two world wars. Tolstoy, Chekhov and Kafka new better than to place their faith in Enlightenment or Victorian values. They resisted the temptation of optimism. Despite all his failings, says West, Du Bois is ...
- 46: Death Of A Salesman 6
- ... of his life. In the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, we witness the deterioration and death of a very well intentioned man. The quote above from Leo Tolstoy s Ivan Ilych, could not possibly better echo the situation developed in Arthur Miller s play. The play becomes Willy Loman s life trial in which he and his family ...
- 47: With Malice Toward None
- ... one hears the name of America uttered with such mystery as if it were some heaven or hell...but I heard this only in connection with the name Lincoln." --Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "In the days before antiseptic surgery, Lincoln had foreshadowed his own demise; his efforts to preserve the life of the nation had been successful at the cost of ...
- 48: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... Age 22: 346-57 Mann, Robert. “Elijah the Prophet in Crime and Punishment.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 1981 Sept 23 (3): 261-72. Yancey, Phillip. “Be Ye Perfect, More or Less: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and the impossible Sermon on the Mount.” Christianity Today 17 July 1991: 38-41. O'Grady, Desmond. “Dostoyevsky Lives: Apostle of Interior Freedom.” Commonweal 4 November, 1994: 6-7 ...
- 49: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... Age 22: 346-57 Mann, Robert. “Elijah the Prophet in Crime and Punishment.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 1981 Sept 23 (3): 261-72. Yancey, Phillip. “Be Ye Perfect, More or Less: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and the impossible Sermon on the Mount.” Christianity Today 17 July 1991: 38-41. O'Grady, Desmond. “Dostoyevsky Lives: Apostle of Interior Freedom.” Commonweal 4 November, 1994: 6-7 ...
- 50: Mohandas Gandhi and His Life
- ... Indian congress. In 1896 after being attacked and beaten by a white mob, Gandhi began to teach passive resistance. The inspiration from this policy came from a Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and an American writer Henry David Thoreau. In 1899, at the outbreak of the Boer Wars, he helped raise 1,200 men to defend Natal and support Britain. This did ...
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