Leo Tolstoy

[Leah]

A place to talk about Leo Tolstoy books!

[Inna]

Ah, I love Tolstoy. What else can be talked about with regard to him...other than, which of his works is your favorite?

[Mohammad]

Yeah this guy's good. I've read the Three questions thing by him. At least I think it was by him.

[Leah]

I am in the process of listening to Anna Karenina on CD... it's good so far, I want Kitty and Constantine to get together! Im only 15, so listening to Anna Karenina makes more sense to me than reading it.... but I will READ it one day. Then I'll tackle War and Peace! You see, Im in Advanced English at my high school because I did thid thing called Academic superbowl and we covered Russian Lit.

[Norman]

In addition to Tolstoy, you should try reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who goes much deeper into the psychology of characters and shows another side of the Russian people of the time.

[Jenna]

I'm just getting into Tolstoy now, but I agree with Norman, Dostoyevsky is pretty fabulous, his characters are so rich in their culture it makes you feel like you've lived in Russia

[Robert]

I've only read the two big ones -"Anna Karenin" and "War and Peace", though I've been giving some thought to re-reading the latter, since it's been more than 30 years since I tackled it. Anyone care to make some other recommendations? And any thoughts on translations? I read the Penguin edition of Anna, translated by Rosemary Edmonds, and the Signet War and Peace, translated by Ann Dunnagin.

[Robert]

An interesting new debate over "War and Peace":

http://www.observer.com/2007/war-over...