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You don’t really expect a Victorian novel to get your heart racing, let alone a 1,500 paged Russian brick. Indeed, the drama of his characters, their triumphs and the failures, would be pure melodrama were it not for Tolstoy’s talent at developing these make-believe psyches.Tolstoy is perhaps literature’s greatest alchemist, and it is impossible to not marvel at, and indeed love, his homunculi