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Green Lights, Yo! 'The Great Gatsby' Is All The Rage Again

Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.24.2012

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I don't know how it happened, but after 80 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel "The Great Gatsby" has become the coolest, most talked about thing in the world.

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The 11 Greatest Affairs In Literature

| Amy Hertz | Posted 12.03.2011

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Story courtesy of Barnes And Noble Review. By Amy Hertz The love that leads to marriage begins with so much promise. But, in books as in life, ...

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Keira Knightley, An Adulteress?

Posted 11.09.2011

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Looks like Keira Knightley will once again adopt a Russian accent in the title role of Tom Stoppard's film adaption of the epic literary romance "Anna...

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Unlikely Heroines In Literature

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.09.2011

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Sometimes even the most literary among us need some suggestions. And who better to oblige than the authors themselves? Welcome to Bookshelf, wherein w...

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Tolstoy Fled In The Middle Of The Night 100 Years Ago Today

Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, on October 28, exactly 100 years ago, Leo Tolstoy disappeared in the middle of the night. He was found two days later in a monastery; his flig...

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'I Am A Woman!'

Cathy Porter | Posted 05.25.2011

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It may be that we would have had none of his great novels without her, but it's her candid account of their 48-year marriage that makes her diaries so compelling.

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From New York City Subways To North Carolina Airports

Posted 05.25.2011

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Subways, airports, buses--we keep an eagle eye out and the moment we hear a page turn, our ears perk up. We're on the lookout for what people are rea...

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'Android Karenina' Out Today: What Would Tolstoy Think? (VIDEO)

Ben H. Winters | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm going to go ahead and get this out of the way. Leo Tolstoy would have hated this book.

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Russia Forgets Tolstoy?

Telegraph UK | Andrew Osborn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tolstoy is better appreciated in the West, academics claim, even though Western readers discovered classics such as War and Peace a good century after...

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Sophia Tolstoy: Not the Woman You Thought She Was

Alexandra Popoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sophia's life has been long misinterpreted, so my goal was to provide accurate information and tell her true story.

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'Android Karenina' Is Latest From 'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies' Publisher

ew.com | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Quirk Books, the folks who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, its prequel, and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, have moved on from bl...

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Tolstoy's Stories

Richard Pevear | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tolstoy has been better served by translators than other Russian writers, but there is still the challenge of coming closer to the original, of catching more of its specific stylistic qualities than previous translations have done.

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Breaking Up: Best Books Not To Read Right After (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

There's no good time to go through a break up and the holidays are just about the worst. The last thing you want to do is rub salt into a wound by rea...

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Orhan Pamuk and his Museum: This Is Your Brain on Novels

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Orhan Pamuk's new novel, "The Museum of Innocence", is about the collectible evidence - the earrings, the cigarette stubs, the views out the bedroom window - of a blissful love affair going bad.

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Mr. Darcy at the White House

Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011

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When I was reading, I started to realize that Barack Obama, the very-soon-to-be 44th President of the United States of America, is Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy.

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Culture Zohn: Sex vs. Spirituality in Thais

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you were going to choose a way to celebrate the season where spirituality fights tooth and nail with sex on a daily basis, this could not be a better way to go.

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