Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith . Hating the round...

EL was in demand for years as a contributor to the publishing projects of others. Her name (as the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton) appears, for instance, on a suffrage pamphlet of late 1906 (partly...

HL 's admiration of Meredith is very evident in the preface and throughout the book, which foregrounds his attention to the New Woman. Lynch refers to him as a master in English literature, and above...

DL , on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy 's house, Yasnaya Polyana.

Before attending school and after she left, Doris educated herself by reading. Her parents possessed copies of the classics, like Scott , Dickens , and Kipling . She read widely in the nineteenth century—her favourites...

Martha comes to see her marriage as repeating a terrible mistake already made by her mother: she is horribly metamorphosed, entirely dependent on her children for any interest in life, resented by them, and resenting...

Lessing spoke here of visiting a four-room school in Zimbabwe, looking out on miles of charred stumps which she remembered as having been long ago the most wonderful forest I have ever seen. It...

VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...

Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy

In this work the Leavises argue (radically modifying the view stated in The Great Tradition) that Dickens was an inheritor of Shakespeare and Blake , and a major influence on the formation of the...

This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain , Tolstoy , J. R. R. Tolkien (Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi the tribal native American whom her father studied and...

It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot 's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)...

It was later, when she began on a story about one of her Athenry aunts, when all of a sudden I knew that I had a facile gift. She then discovered for the first time...

Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...

Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...