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I finished the second story, Sebastopol in May. Lots of untranslated French in this edition. But also the end of that section is so powerful. It kind of echoes 'The Christmas Truce' of World War One.

Page count is based on Libby page numbers. So who knows what the actual page numbers are.

Ah, Penguin Classics in 1988 when no one bothered to translate the French even in the endnotes or footnotes. I'm assuming the French was in French in Tolstoy's original text. I know he does it in War & Peace. I know the posh Russians spoke French not Russian. My schoolboy French only got me so far.

As I think I've said before I'm working through this very slowly. But I'm really enjoying it. They way he brings the countryside to life is great. I love his 'moody crows' or as they as is later 'melancholy crow'

I finished 'The Soldier's Art'. Now on The Military Philosophers.