“The great leap is not in the body, but in the soul.” Part One: The Beginnings The novel opens in 18th-century China, where Wang Lun, a fisherman’s son, […]
Russian literature
Hadji Murat
“I remembered a once glorious, now crushed thistle… There is nothing more tenacious than this rough, hardy plant.” Introduction The novel opens with Tolstoy’s reflection on a crushed […]