A beginner’s guide to falling in love with Russian literature

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Wellness & Longevity United States

Few literary canons inspire as much reverence, and fear, as Russia’s. The sheer size and complexity of novels like Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1867) and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1880) have created two groups of readers: Those who have read them, and those who say they will read them — one day. For one reason or another, that day never seems to come. Allow us to make the case…

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