Epstein Secrets

l we needed to appreciate them, aside from a pocket dictionary and a good memory, was our own spines. He assured us that the authors he had selected—Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Franz Kaflca, Gustave Flaubert, and Robert Louis Stevenson-would produce tingling we could

alled "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century," but unofficially called "Dirty Lit" by the Cornell Daily Sun, since it dealt with adultery in Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from tsarist Russia. About six feet tall and balding, he stood, with what I took

und Bartlett "If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy" wrote Isaac Babel. Universally regarded as the greatest writer of Russian fiction, Leo Tolstoy is the only author with two works regularly featuring in lists of the top ten novels of all time. This weekend course, led by Rosamund Bartlett, b

immerse yourself in both of them. We will explore the whole of Tolstoy's long career as a prose writer, but the focus will be on War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the novels which represent the summit of his creative achievement, and rank amongst the greatest monuments of world literature. Whether you parti

und Bartlett "If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy" wrote Isaac Babel. Universally regarded as the greatest writer of Russian fiction, Leo Tolstoy is the only author with two works regularly featuring in lists of the top ten novels of all time. This weekend course, led by Rosamund Bartlett, b

immerse yourself in both of them. We will explore the whole of Tolstoy's long career as a prose writer, but the focus will be on War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the novels which represent the summit of his creative achievement, and rank amongst the greatest monuments of world literature. Whether you parti