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Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.
Tolstoy had something when he said that all happy families are alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
But the essay's example was Tolstoy's use of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace . At Tolstoy's balls, teas, and operas, even jaded readers get to see everything anew--because we see it through Natasha's gushing teeny-bopper heart.
We loved the story and the characters, but we had never heard of Flaubert or Tolstoy.
In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”