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Dickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists PART 2

Intelligence Squared

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Tolstoy's Sense of Reality

The great force of you being there is built up from these sharply, perfectly described physical moments. Tolstoy knew how women relate to each other and one passage I wanted we want now to give you is actually two sisters. This is the so-called subplot, but it's terribly important from Anna Karenina. The Shebatsky sisters, Kitty, the young one, Dolly, the old one, they both suffered. So many of Dickens' women are either monsters or angels,. Two monsters, one has brought up the other monster in great expectations.

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