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...Tolstoy's "War and Peace" ("I'll go along with the critics on this...
...Fanatics. Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
...Parade's End Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
...master. Said Hemingway in a recent interview: "I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal . . . But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better...