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Discovering the unread: Reflections on classic literature, beginning and endings
We ought to read them; we want to; we will. Next summer, or winter, when time indoors lends a circumstantial hand. Or next year. And so the pile grows, to be added to deathbed…
Publishers weigh into War and Peace battle
”Tell me, why this nasty war?” asks a character in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Almost 140 years after first publication of the epic novel, a nasty duel has broken out between…