This week on The Literary Life, we bring you our first Summer Short Story episode covering “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy. To start off the discussion of this short story, Thomas gives us some background to help answer Angelina’s question about why this story seems so very different from other Tolstoy works. Angelina shares how to approach this story like a parable. Cindy brings up the question of the difference between ambition and vocation in terms of contentment.
On July 15, 2021, we will be celebrating our 100th episode hosting a LIVE Q&A episode in our Patreon group, and you can ask questions in our Facebook group with hashtag #litlife100. The recording will air on July 20th.
We are excited to announce our third annual Literary Life Back to School Online Conference! This year’s theme is Awakening: The Pursuit of True Education, and our featured guest speaker is James Daniels. The conference will take place on August 4-7, 2021, and you can learn more and register at morningtimeformoms.com.
Cindy also has some exciting announcements, including the debut of the new expanded edition of her book Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love, which will be available in early July. AND she is starting a new Charlotte Mason podcast called The New Mason Jar, set to drop on August 5, 2021!
Listen to The Literary Life: Commonplace Quotes:It is a mistake, perhaps, to think that, to do one thing well, we must just do and think about that and nothing else all the time. It is our business to know all we can and to spend a part of our lives in increasing our knowledge of Nature and Art, of Literature and Man, of the Past and the Present. That is one way in which we become greater persons, and the more a person is, the better he will do whatever piece of special work falls to his share. Let us have, like Leonardo, a spirit invariably royal and magnanimous.
Charlotte Mason Earth’s Eternityby John Clare
Man, Earth’s poor shadow! talks of Earth’s decay:
But hath it nothing of eternal kin?
No majesty that shall not pass away?
No soul of greatness springing up within?
Thought marks without hoar shadows of sublime,
Pictures of power, which if not doomed to win
Eternity, stand laughing at old Time
For ages: in the grand ancestral line
Of things eternal, mounting to divine,
I read Magnificence where ages pay
Worship like conquered foes to the Apennine,
Because they could not conquer. There sits Day
Too high for Night to come at–mountains shine,
Outpeering Time, too lofty for decay.
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
Book of Virtues ed. by William Bennett
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
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Episode 55: 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge Check-In
Episode 54: Our Favorite Poems
Episode 53: The Trojan Women, Part 2
Episode 52: Intro to Greek Drama and The Trojan Women
Episode 51: Discussing Simone Weil's Essay on Education
Episode 50: The Great Divorce, Ch. 11-14
Episode 49: The Great Divorce, Ch. 7-10
Episode 48: The Great Divorce, Ch. 2-6
Episode 47: The Great Divorce, Preface & Ch. 1
Episode 46: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 3
Episode 45: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 2
Episode 44: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 1
Episode 43: The Literary World of Oscar Wilde
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Episode 41: The Art of Writing, Part 2
Episode 40: The Art of Writing, Part 1
Episode 39: The Literary Life of Karen Glass
Episode 38: "A Winter's Tale" Act 5
Episode 37: "A Winter's Tale" Act 4
Episode 36: A Winter's Tale, Act 3
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