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  1. There has been too much focus on Cather's...

    There has been too much focus on Cather's 'lesbianism', a question that can't be answered definatively anyway. Women of Cather's day did not have the option of having both family AND career. As the...
  2. Catherine and Heathcliff vs Cathy and Hareton

    I've just come from the discussion on Tolstoy where a number of readers expressed admiration for the rakish character Dolokhov in War and Peace. I've never been a fan of the character, but I've...
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    He’s selfish and ruthless. Sometimes too selfish, too ruthless, too vengeful. I can’t admire him in the sense that I think he is right in the way he leads his life and I wish he wasn’t so cruel with...
  4. I agree with you that Dolokhov is a believable...

    I agree with you that Dolokhov is a believable character, but I don't admire him! Tolstoy makes a striking figure out of him, even on paper. I'm not sure what a Persion costume of the day looked...
  5. Is Dohokhov more than a scalawag in Persian dress?

    I'm glad there are so many of you who love War and Peace as much as I do. Ths last time I read it, I was struck by how often Tolstoy used Dohokhov whenever he need an antagonist: Dohokhov goads...
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    Original versions of War and Peace

    There is an in depth study of all of Tolstoy's early versions of War and Peace by Kathryn Feuer. She traces the evolution of the major characters as they were split joined and mixed. For instance,...
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    It does seem that Tolstoy wanted to demonstrate...

    It does seem that Tolstoy wanted to demonstrate that the kittenish Sonia was too docile to acquire a husband of her own. In the earlier version of the novel that you mentioned, the selflessness of...
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    It seems to me that whenever Tolstoy needed a bad...

    It seems to me that whenever Tolstoy needed a bad guy, he put Dolohov in the scene. It strains even the credulity of fiction readers to believe that one person would be on hand whenever there was...
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