Don't trust a woman who wears too much perfume and know your limits " Viv Groskop on the 10 top tips Chekov, Tolstoy and others have for us todayWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThis is the five-page kernel of what Henry James called "the large, loose, baggy monster" (read from page 1,074 of the Penguin Classics edition). The character of Platon Karatayev, the everyman muzhik (peasant), pops up fleetingly to proffer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM on October 13, 2017