Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russia Life” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)

I vividly recall a time in my life–especially my late teens and early twenties–when I thought I could be anyone but had no idea which anyone to be. For this I blame (or credit) my liberal arts education, which convinced me that there was really nothing I couldn’t master but...

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