My God! These Russians. I know this is perhaps an irreverent way of addressing Tolstoy, but I can't help but club him with the group of illustrious Russian writers that gave the world so much to treasure. Sometimes I wonder how every single one of them can be so damn bloody brilliant. Amazing and aw...
one of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way; said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. people are not like that. we may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, mo...
My Oh My, this book! How does one even begin to write a review on 'War and Peace'?! A book of so many words managed to leave me utterly speechless.Here is my dilemma - either I had lived in Russia 200 years ago or Tolstoy is a genius. The second option seems more reasonable, yet a part of me still ...
Anna Karenina follows two story lines: one is nearly ridiculous, while the other is nearly sublime. Although I vastly preferred one to the other, they complement each other well. Each serves to emphasize the best or worst in the other.We have the story of Levin, a landowner who delights in work an...
I have never seen death described in so small pieces, from every moment before, till it comes and grabs the man in her clench. While Ivan Ilych is suffering from an acute disease, this book describes his pain in finest words. By the final moments even I began to implore 'Oh God! let him die now'.
All the tolstoy I've read, I've liked. This is no exception. The long russian names are scary for about a chapter, then you get used to it. A good quick read.
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