by Leo Tolstoy
What moved me the most in this novel is: how true is what Tolstoy says about the judicial system, even in our world of today. And this is not just in France, but all over the world. When I read those sections on judicial errors, imprisonment for lack of official papers, inhuman treatment of prisoner...
A story best written Tolstoy style.
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...
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...
Even though the book has a cast of about 50 characters, only two are really important. The main character, a prince in the Russian aristocracy, seduced a young servant girl years before. Many years later, he is on a jury that is hearing a murder case against this same woman who has managed to surv...
A good intro to Tolstoy if you don't want to take on War and Peace, but it's definitely not as good. He seems to have a woman with a mustache in every one of his books....This books is also reviewed at my blog Books: A true story
This is Tolstoy in his preachy-crazy-old-man phase. I admire him deeply as a person, because he was willing to live his convictions, but I think he was wildly misguided by this point in his life. You get a lot of points for trying hard to do good, but at some level the total train wreck that your ...
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