"On this rereading, I was haunted by Tolstoy’s strange, beautiful multi-chapter scene about Konstantin Levin mowing his own field with a scythe: an intimate portrait of the anguish and the miracle of graceful work by a writer who knew both."

"I fell in love with “Anna Karenina” because of how clearly it showed that no character was wrong—that even the unreasonable-seeming people were doing what appeared right to them, based on their own knowledge and experiences."

Leo Tolstoy was perhaps one of the greatest (if not the greatest) writers and thinkers to have ever lived. Tolstoy is the author of classics such as War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Death of Ivan Ilych. #leotolstoy #literature #russianliterature #writer #thinker #tolstoy