Download or read book I Quit Everything written by Freda Love Smith and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experimental account of one woman’s quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life—which dares to ask if we’re really better off without them. In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet Underground, watched as insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol. It felt like the culmination of eight months of pandemic anxiety. She needed a drink, badly. But she suspected a midday whiskey wouldn’t cure what was really ailing her—nor would her nightly cannabis gummy, or her four daily cups of tea, or any of the other substances she relied on to get through each day. Thus began her experiment to remove one addictive behavior from her life each month to see if sobriety was really all it was cracked up to be. With honesty and humor, Smith describes the effects of withdrawal from alcohol, sugar, caffeine, cannabis, and social media, weaving in her reflections on the childhood experiences and cultural norms that fed her addictions to these behaviors. Part personal history, part sociological research, and part wry observation on addiction, intoxication, media, and pandemic behavior, I Quit Everything will resonate with anyone who has danced with destructive habits—that is, those who are “sober curious” but not necessarily sober. Smith’s experiment goes beyond simply quitting these five addictive behaviors. Moved by the circumstances of the pandemic and the general state of the world, she ends up leaving an unsatisfying job for more meaningful work and reevaluating other significant details of her life, such as motherhood and the music that defined her career. More than a simple sobriety story, Smith’s book is an exploration of passion, legacy, and what becomes of our identities once we’ve quit everything.

Download or read book Problems of Conduct An Introductory Survey of Ethics written by Durant Drake and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics by Durant Drake: In "Problems of Conduct," Durant Drake provides an introductory exploration of ethical dilemmas and moral philosophy. The book navigates through various ethical theories, addressing complex questions about right and wrong, personal responsibility, and decision-making in challenging situations. Key Aspects of the Book "Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics": Ethical Theories: Drake introduces readers to fundamental ethical frameworks and theories that have shaped philosophical discussions about morality. Moral Dilemmas: The book engages with real-life scenarios and thought experiments to encourage readers to contemplate and analyze ethical predicaments. Practical Ethics: Readers gain insights into applying ethical principles to everyday life, fostering a deeper understanding of personal and societal conduct. Durant Drake was an American philosopher and educator known for his contributions to ethics and moral philosophy. His work, "Problems of Conduct," serves as an accessible entry point into the realm of ethical thinking, encouraging readers to reflect on their values and make informed ethical choices.

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel written by Malcolm V. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.

Download or read book Leo Tolstoy written by Richard F. Gustafson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what was central to Tolstoy seems embarrassing to Western and Soviet critics, points out Richard Gustafson in his absorbing argument for the predominance of Tolstoy's religious viewpoint in all his writings. Received opinion says that there are two Tolstoys, the pre-conversion artist and the post-conversion religious thinker and prophet, but Professor Gustafson argues convincingly that the man is not two, but one. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Digest written by Quintus Curtius and published by Fortress of the Mind Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Quintus Curtius's most important essays covering the period from 2016 to 2019. The range of topics is diverse and compelling, and includes history, moral philosophy, travel and exploration, language, and the wisdom of the Near East. "No branch of knowledge," the author notes, "is tangential to the curve of wisdom." These writings provide a window into a philosophy of life based on a belief in achievement through struggle, wisdom, moral goodness, and direct experience.

Download or read book My Life written by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 2110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya’s My Life memoirs. My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works of 2010 by The Globe and Mail. It has also won an honourable mention in the Biography and Autobiography category of the 2010 American Publishers Awards for the Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) awards. And, finally, it made it into the Association of American University Presses' 2011 Book, Jacket and Journal Show. One hundred years after his death, Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya. Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator, transcriber, and editor, she played an important role in the development of her husband’s career. Her memoirs – which she titled My Life – lay dormant for almost a century. Now their first-time-ever appearance in Russia is complemented by an unabridged and annotated English translation. Tolstaya’s story takes us from her childhood through the early years of her marriage, the writing of War and Peace and Anna Karenina and into the first year of the twentieth century. She paints an intimate and honest portrait of her husband’s character, providing new details about his life to which she alone was privy. She offers a better understanding of Tolstoy’s character, his qualities and failings as a husband and a father, and forms a picture of the quintessential Tolstoyan character which underlies his fiction. My Life also reveals that Tolstaya was an accomplished author in her own right—as well as a translator, amateur artist, musician, photographer, and businesswoman—a rarity in the largely male-dominated world of the time. She was actively involved in the relief efforts for the 1891–92 famine and the emigration of the Doukhobors in 1899. She was a prolific correspondent, in touch with many prominent figures in Russian and Western society. Guests in her home ranged from peasants to princes, from anarchists to artists, from composers to philosophers. Her descriptions of these personalities read as a chronicle of the times, affording a unique portrait of late-19th- and early-20th-century Russian society, ranging from peasants to the Tsar himself. My Life is the most important primary document about Tolstoy to be published in many years and a unique and intimate portrait of one of the greatest literary minds of all time.

Download or read book Tolstoy and his Disciples written by Charlotte Alston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state. The transformation in his outlook led to his excommunication by the Orthodox Church, and the breakdown of his family life. Internationally, he inspired a legion of followers who formed communities and publishing houses devoted to living and promoting the Tolstoyan life. These enterprises flourished across Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and Tolstoyism influenced individuals as diverse as William Jennings Bryan and Mohandas Gandhi. In this book, Charlotte Alston provides the first in-depth historical account of this remarkable phenomenon, and provides an important re-assessment of Tolstoy's impact on the political life of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book is unique in its treatment of Tolstoyism as an international phenomenon: it explores both the connections between these Tolstoyan groups, and their relationships with other related reform movements.

Download or read book Leo Tolstoy and the Alibi of Narrative written by Justin Weir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This original book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a new look at his most famous works of fiction.

Download or read book Tolstoy in Search of Truth and Meaning written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2024 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of inspirational quotes represents Tolstoy's lifelong quest to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Gathered from various writings throughout his lifetime, Tolstoy covers multiple topics, including self-improvement, marriage, good and evil, war, and civil disobedience.

Download or read book Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy written by Donna Tussing Orwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in these essays speak to readers with astonishing force, relevance, and complexity. In a lively, challenging style, leading scholars range over his long life, from his first work Childhood to the works of his old age like Hadji Murat, and the many genres in which he worked, from the major novels to aphorisms and short stories. The essays present fresh approaches to his central themes: love, death, religious faith and doubt, violence, the animal kingdom, and war. They also assess his reception both in his lifetime and subsequently. Setting new agendas for the study of this classic author, this volume provides a snapshot of more current scholarship on Tolstoy.

Download or read book Sofia Tolstaya the Author written by and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the most topical questions of the time, Sofia Tolstaya’s artistic works—from parables to short stories, novellas, and memoirs—show deep insights into the social context of nineteenth-century Russia. In his lengthy review of My Life (along with other Tolstaya publications) in Canadian Slavonic Papers, the eminent Tolstoy scholar Hugh McLean (2011) laments the fact that it has taken so long (almost a century after her death) to focus academic attention on Sofia Tolstaya, and that there has been no unified publication of her works, scattered as they are among dated journals or not published at all. This book aims to help fill this lacuna by offering a critical introduction to her literary output as a writer in her own right, and presenting, for the first time, an anthology of her main artistic works, some in fresh English translation, and others never translated before.

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy Illustrated written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 8056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of realistic fiction, Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest novelists. He is best known for his two longest works, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’, commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. During his later years, Tolstoy also achieved world renown as a moral and religious teacher. His doctrine of non-resistance to evil had an important influence on Gandhi. Some viewed him as the embodiment of nature and pure vitality, others saw him as the incarnation of the world’s conscience, while all regarded him as a living symbol of the search for life’s meaning. This eBook presents Tolstoy’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 4) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tolstoy’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the novels and novellas, with individual contents tables * Features rare stories appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes rare plays * Large selection of non-fiction works — spend hours exploring the author’s diverse works * Special criticism section, with 11 essays evaluating Tolstoy’s contribution to world literature * Features three biographies – discover Tolstoy’s literary life, including Maude’s seminal study * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with new and revised texts, more rare short stories, novellas, non-fiction and biographies CONTENTS: The Novels War and Peace (1869) Anna Karenina (1877) Resurrection (1899) The Novellas Childhood (1852) Boyhood (1854) Youth (1856) Sevastopol Sketches (1856) A Russian Proprietor (1856) Two Hussars (1856) Family Happiness (1859) Polikushka (1862) The Cossacks (1863) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Katia (1888) The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) Walk in the Light While There is Light (1893) Master and Man (1895) The Devil (1911) The Forged Coupon (1911) Hadji Murat (1912) The Unfinished Novel The Decembrists (1884) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy The Plays The Power of Darkness (1886) The First Distiller (1886) The Light Shines in Darkness (1890) The Fruits of Culture (1891) Redemption (1891) The Live Corpse (1900) The Cause of It All (1910) The Non-Fiction A Confession (1880) Moscow Census (1882) My Religion (1884) What Shall We Do? (1886) On the Significance of Science and Art (1886) Church and State (1891) The Kingdom of God is within You (1893) Introductions to Books (1894) Christianity and Patriotism (1894) Reason and Religion (1895) Patriotism or Peace (1896) Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby (1896) Journal (1895-1899) The Slavery of Our Times (1900) Thou Shalt Not Kill (1900) What is Art? (1904) Bethink Yourselves! (1904) Tolstoy on Shakespeare (1906) A Letter to a Hindu (1908) The Criticism Leo Tolstoï (1887) by W. D. Howells Tolstoy the Artist (1889) by Ivan Panin Tolstoy the Preacher (1889) by Ivan Panin Extract from ‘My Literary Passions’ (1895) by W. D. Howells Extracts from ‘A Survey of Russian Literature’ (1902) by Isabel Florence Hapgood Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity (1902) by G. K. Chesterton Extract from ‘Essays on Russian Novelists’ (1911) by William Lyon Phelps The Russian Point of View (1912) by Virginia Woolf Russian Romance (1913) by Earl of Evelyn Baring Cromer Extract from ‘An Outline of Russian Literature’ (1914) by Maurice Baring Extract from ‘Prophets of Dissent’ (1918) by Otto Heller The Biographies The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years (1908) by Aylmer Maude Tolstoy (1911) by Romain Rolland Reminiscences of Tolstoy (1914) by Count Ilya Tolstoy

Download or read book Russian Literature from Pushkin to the Present Day written by Richard Hare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1947, examines the truly vital and enduring qualities of the leading Russian writers, as literature and as interesting documents of phases of Russian history. This is one of the most striking features of Russian literature since Pushkin – it treated artistically social and political issues that in the more prosperous and stable Western world were dealt with through journalism, mainly. This book analyses Russian literature’s propensity for providing reassurance and guidance to withstand the harsher elements of Russian society by examining some of its leading writers.

Download or read book Revolution and Non Violence in Tolstoy Gandhi and Mandela written by Imraan Coovadia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century--Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class, Mohandas Gandhi who corresponded with Tolstoy and considered him the most important person of the time, and Nelson Mandela, prisoner and statesman, who read War and Peace on Robben Island and who, despite having led a campaign of sabotage, saw himself as a successor to Gandhi. Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela tried to create transformed societies to replace the dying forms of colony and empire. They found the inequalities of Russia, India, and South Africa intolerable yet they questioned the wisdom of seizing the power of the state, creating new kinds of political organisation and imagination to replace the old promises of revolution. Their views, along with their ways of leading others, are closely connected, from their insistence on working with their own hands and reforming their individual selves to their acceptance of death. On three continents, in a century of mass mobilization and conflict, they promoted strains of nationalism devoid of antagonism, prepared to take part in a general peace. Looking at Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela in sequence, taking into account their letters and conversations as well as the institutions they created or subverted, placing at the centre their treatment of the primal fantasy of political violence, this volume reveals a vital radical tradition which stands outside the conventional categories of twentieth-century history and politics.

Download or read book Carol Shields and the Extra Ordinary written by Marta Dvorak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social critique implicit in its gentle satirical impulses.

Download or read book An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth written by M. K. Gandhi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical, annotated edition of M. K. Gandhi's most famous written work, published seventy years after his death In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still voice" that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, M. K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography. Drafted during a period of intensive fasting and "in-dwelling" at his ashram in Ahmedebad, his story of the soul portrayed the deeper, more inward experiences that made him externally an innovator in the struggles against violence, racism, and colonialism. The book, written in Gujarati and translated into English by Mahadev Desai, would become an international classic, hailed as one of the "100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century." This first critical edition of this seminal work by leading Gandhi scholar Tridip Suhrud offers an unprecedented window into the original Gujarati text. Including both alternative English translations and illuminating notes, as well as a deeply researched introduction, it will bring renewed critical attention to one of the world's most widely read books.