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Some authors inescapably suggest animals: Hemingway is a lion, Tolstoy a bear, Colette a cat. Anthologist Stephen Brook is a crow. For The Oxford Book of Dreams he has ranged over four millenniums and most of the dry surfaces of the globe in search of recorded visions. The result is a nest of glittering curiosities, some of rare value, others plucked from the dustbin of history, where they belonged. Moreover, although the collection offers hundreds of entries, it also has inexcusable gaps. The dreams of Pharaoh's servants are here, interpreted by Joseph, but they represent one-half...
Isaiah Berlin's memorable essay on Tolstoy, The Hedgehog and the Fox, begins with a fragment of Greek verse: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the characters. They seem never to have known anything else...
...River Dee at Balmoral was idyllic, but Prince Charles' choice of summer reading decidedly was not. On a recent afternoon during the royal family's annual holiday at their Scottish castle, Charles was snapped as he pored over Victims of Yalta, a grim account by Nikolai Tolstoy (Leo's grandnephew) of the forced repatriation of 2 million Soviet P.O.W.s by Britain and the U.S. after World War II. One Fleet Street scribe joked that between the covers the book might really be The Thousand and One Lusty Nights of Fifi...
...volumes. Here almost all the classics of Japanese and Western literature are available for about a dollar. The softcover books are wallet-size and encased at the store with a protective paper wrapper. About 10% of those volumes are titles originally published in English, German, French and Italian. Tolstoy's novels have been available for nine decades; Isaac Asimov's Foundation's Edge is now being prepared. "The number of translations is on the rise," says Hiroshi Hayakawa, an executive with the nation's major foreign book publisher. "The trouble is, you can never tell which...