— Anonymous Reading Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich at a weird time like this, I would say, is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: no one thought they were going to be a good match until someone put them together, proclaimed about its delightful taste, and called it a day. But I […]
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While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy …
— Ali Zandani While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, a lot of thoughts and questions came to my mind, what if this great story of Ivan Ilyich was meant to relate to everyone that reads it? because I believe that this story of Ivan Ilyich relates to […]
During this whole COVID-19 pandemic …
— Eunice Ojedele During this whole COVID-19 pandemic, I have been able to learn a lot about the value of time and life itself. The reading of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich further serves as a great reason or example on why we should make sure that we are living life to the fullest, […]
One of the pieces I enjoyed reading …
— Anonymous One of the pieces I enjoyed reading the most was, “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov. I was able to connect to it from the beginning because Chekhov was a prominent author at the end of the 19th century just before the formation of the Soviet Union. My parents immigrated to […]
Passion of life
—Wenyi Luo The literary text that I did not understand when I first read it on my own is The Lady with the Dog written by Anton Chekhov. It is a story about extramarital affair. There are two people, Anna and Gurov, lovers who are married to different people, and are tortured by their individual […]
