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Reading War and Peace was all the adventure I had hoped. Though I cannot say I found it immaculate as a work of art, War and Peace , "l...

Dreadful. The whole of Part Two should have been cut, or at the very least whittled way down to a third and published separately. This is no...

These are the chapters that wrap up the novel proper: the stories of Nastasha and Pierre and Princess Marya and Nikolai Rostov. It begins (p...

"Several years had passed since 1812." That seems innocent enough, but then for four chapters, Tolstoy turns into the Cosmic versi...

Oh so Jane Austen-y. But well done. I'm reading. A technical note-- Tolstoy uses summary to excellent effect on p. 1114: The princess [M...

I've been complaining about Tolstoy's history lessons, but this one, about the return of the Russians to Moscow, was very interestin...