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Anna Karenina
12.04.09 | Permalink | Comments

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The following quote from Anna Karenina illustrates quite well one of the commonest vices of current well-spoken and well-educated dandy people who inhabit our petite bourgeoisie.
Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact [...]
literature
The Philosopher’s Stone
11.08.09 | Permalink | Comments

It is widely known that titles of books, films and other works, are often translated very liberally. Sometime, they are literal; sometime they are extravagantly different. “War and Peace”, rest assured, is literally the same title in all languages, at least in those languages of the Western world.

So, it is somewhat interesting when some books, [...]
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Murder, Madness and Mayhem
11.07.09 | Permalink | Comments

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Sometimes people object to using Wikipedia for academic purposes. I am not going to deal with the pros and cons of such use here (though I am convinced the pros far outnumber the cons). I am going to talk about a professor who took the bull by its horn and decided to build [...]