Leo Tolstoy
Above: Scout (Mary Badham) and Atticus (Gregory Peck) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Peggy Noonan Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Peggy Noonan for The Wall Street Journal. I agree with her that, with the recent…
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Read More“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” Robert Jordan “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with…
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Why “great books” really do matter
In his eponymous work, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters and his comments also apply to other authors such as Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Joyce. Nicolson suggests, “Homer matters because Homer, in a godlike way, understands what mortals do…
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