You Should Read: Tolstoy
Thomas McAdam
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins Count Leo Tolstoy’s wonderful novel, Anna Karenina. In about a thousand pages, you will learn about love, infidelity, hypocrisy, jealousy, family, marriage, passion, and carnal desire. Hardly a single human emotion is left unexamined by Russia’s greatest writer.
Time Magazine listed Anna Karenina as the “greatest novel ever written,” and the poignant story of the socialite wife of an aristocratic government official and her passionate affair with the affluent—and single--Count Vronsky has remained in print since it’s first appearance in 1878.
Sure, you can pick up one of the current best-seller romances at your drugstore or supermarket, but none of these formulaic bodice-rippers can hold a candle to Tolstoy. You will want to explore some of the other books by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, including his dynamic tale of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, War and Peace; and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, which analyzes the meaning of life, suffering, and death.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a weekly iLocal News series, reviewing not only the latest books by local writers, but also reminding readers that some of the best books in print have been around for a long time. As Mark Twain said, “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
Books are wonderful things. Whether you are lying on the beach, or curled up in your favorite chair in front of a fire on a frosty day, a good book to read will fill your day with enjoyment. It doesn’t matter if your book is a leather-bound treasure, an inexpensive paperback, an electronic Ebook or Kindle, or an audiobook playing on your car radio. Books excite, inform, move the soul, and stimulate the senses. Reading expands your world, and makes you a more interesting person.
As Groucho Marx once said, “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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