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War and peace anna karenina5/19/2023 ![]() To those readers who make their way towards Tolstoy, attracted by his reputation, War and Peace appears a monolith on the literary landscape, hewn out of granite, defiant and self-assured. The subject of Anna Karenina is private and personal, too, in direct contrast to the public drama of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia depicted in War and Peace. Whereas War and Peace has a stage as large as Russia itself and is as densely populated, Anna Karenina’s stage is intimate, with no more than a few families involved. ![]() ![]() When someone is slow in writing a text, say, or email, or shopping list, for that matter, the wag may be heard to ask – What are you writing, War and Peace?Īnna Karenina is different, however. Millions who have never read the magnificent book will happily refer to it in their daily speech. When people think ‘big, difficult literary novel’, they think War and Peace . ![]() ![]() War and Peace is on the same ‘to do’ list as Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, James Joyce’s Ulyssesand Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. REVIEW: Leo Tolstoy is an author we have all heard of and know we ought to read some day. ![]()
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