Literary-Blog
Anna Karenina
Imagine sitting high in the saddle atop a chestnut color mare as she carefully trots over a turf of slightly frozen snow and under the shadows of tall trees camouflaged...
Anna Karenina
Imagine sitting high in the saddle atop a chestnut color mare as she carefully trots over a turf of slightly frozen snow and under the shadows of tall trees camouflaged...
"Wintry weather was already setting in...", (Wa...
The year is 1810, young Nikolai Rostov reluctantly resigns his comfortable and promising career in the Russian army returning to Moscow to tend his family’s faltering business interests. With neither...
"Wintry weather was already setting in...", (Wa...
The year is 1810, young Nikolai Rostov reluctantly resigns his comfortable and promising career in the Russian army returning to Moscow to tend his family’s faltering business interests. With neither...
Tolstoi's Cossacks
This passage has nine short sentences—containing 146-words—where Tolstoi not only, in my opinion, masterfully describes a moment in time at a specific location, but draws a sharp contrast between the...
Tolstoi's Cossacks
This passage has nine short sentences—containing 146-words—where Tolstoi not only, in my opinion, masterfully describes a moment in time at a specific location, but draws a sharp contrast between the...
Phantom
Passage From Phantom by Ivan Turgenev “I glanced downwards. We had now risen again to a considerable height. We were flying over some provincial town I did not know, situated...
Phantom
Passage From Phantom by Ivan Turgenev “I glanced downwards. We had now risen again to a considerable height. We were flying over some provincial town I did not know, situated...
The World and Africa
Passage from Chapter Two of “The World and Africa” by W.E.B DuBois “All these centers of civilization envied England the wealth and power built upon her imperial colonial system. One looking at...
The World and Africa
Passage from Chapter Two of “The World and Africa” by W.E.B DuBois “All these centers of civilization envied England the wealth and power built upon her imperial colonial system. One looking at...
Scarlet Plague
I was introduced for the first time to a book by Jack London over 60 years ago. Since that time I have read several of London’s works including “The Call...
Scarlet Plague
I was introduced for the first time to a book by Jack London over 60 years ago. Since that time I have read several of London’s works including “The Call...