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Bookmarking this to finish at home

Master and Man is not Tolstoy's best work. It seems to be an effort to remake his much earlier story "The Snowstorm," by giving some meaning behind the facts of the event itself. Ultimately, I'm just not sure he chose the right moral. The dichotomy between the way Vasili treats Nikita and Nikita treats Mukhortui was what I thought was interesting, but the story went elsewhere.

The Gambler was great. Maybe a little slow and meandering, but by the end it shows itself to be a perfect portrait of its subject.

First Love was a pleasant story, inherently relatable, but not as heart-breaking as you might expect. It's more like a story of grief, you see and recognize the process, and empathize with it without sharing it. Very nice.