“To read him… is to find one’s way home… to everything within us that is fundamental and sane. —Thomas Mann”
― The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
― The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
“for the heart, also, has its hunger,—”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“The Bell: “The storm is approaching, it is impossible to be mistaken about that. The Revolutionaries and Reactionaries are at one about that. All men’s heads are going round; a weighty question of life and death lies heavy on men’s heads.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Bashkirs.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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