Sentences with phrase «literary giants like»

Nine male convicted felons, serving long sentences for violent crimes, meet regularly with a sensitive, witty female professor inside a maximum security prison to read and discuss works by literary giants like Conrad, Kafka, Nabokov, Poe and Shakespeare.

On our journey we observe power of the past in Catherine and Peter the Greats, literary giants like Alexander Pushkin, as well as later overseers of the Hermitage in Boris Piotrovsky and current director Mikhail Piotrovsky, all within the same time and space.

Not exact matches

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.