It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.' The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. There you'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale. 'Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, 'We are not to take 'Anna Karenina' as a work of art we are to take it as a piece of life.''

Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. 'A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. It made me want to be a more moral and better person.' -Paul Schrodt, entertainment editorĪmazon synopsis: 'Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, 'Anna Karenina' is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

'It was the rare work of fiction that actually changed how I saw the world. 'And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.' Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.

The inclusion of such familiar and beloved characters also helped the ideas stick in my mind.' -Christina Sterbenz, weekend and features editorĪmazon synopsis: The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese - or a venerable philosopher - but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear. 'This book introduced me to the idea that simplicity isn't the enemy of satisfaction it's the essence of it.

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