Graphic detail | The GBOATs How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time? Tolkien, 1954 1 day, 7 hours and 13 minutes to read 18 Catch-22 Joseph Heller, 1961 10 hours and 33 minutes to read 19 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1857 6 hours and 36 minutes to read 20 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847 …
Most of those who have research and written on hope acknowledge an important — and positive — connection between hope and agency. Fred’s story ends happily enough, thanks to the wise and generous support of others who enable him to redirect his hopeful energy towards developing his own powers of agency — though, as George Eliot remarks in the closing …
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