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Leo Tolstoy

Start date: October 1, 2020

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Feb 20, 2020 Ileana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

«Lo que principalmente deseo es que no piensen que quiero demostrar algo. No quiero demostrar nada: solamente quiero vivir. No quiero mal a nadie, excepto a mí misma… A esto tengo derecho, ¿verdad? De todos modos, éste es tema para una conversación muy larga; luego hablaremos de todo ello. Ahora voy a vestirme. Te mandaré a la muchacha.» [p. 771]

Esta edición de Austral tiene una portada muy bonita y un precio muy asequible. Lamentablemente el texto deja mucho que desear: se encuentran frases sin ...more

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Jan 27, 2021 midnightfaerie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, favorites, literature, classic-tomes, historical, rory-gilmore

Wow. Just wow.

So years ago I read Atlas Shrugged and (putting all politics aside) I loved it. The way Ayn Rand writes put hope in my heart that the Russian authors would be the love of my life. So when I moved onto Tolstoy, I jumped in with War and Peace. Boy, was that a mistake. A convoluted soap opera of self absorbed characters, I was so disappointed. So then, a few years later, a book club convinced me to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy. Although I didn't hate it, it didn't cause me ...more

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