If you're going to read any Tolstoy, do read 'Anna Karenina'. I personally found it to be a wonderful book in all sorts of ways; not the most cheering read ever (though the sad things are tempered by happier experiences for other characters) but an undoubtedly powerful and insightful novel. It also makes some interesting points about he construction of race in 19th century Russia.
If you read and enjoyed 'Gemma Bovary' (&hearts Posy Simmonds;) you could always read 'Tamara Drewe' instead of 'Far From The Madding Crowd'!
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Date: 2010-10-12 06:13 pm (UTC)If you read and enjoyed 'Gemma Bovary' (&hearts Posy Simmonds;) you could always read 'Tamara Drewe' instead of 'Far From The Madding Crowd'!