Leo Tolstoy “read a lot of English family novels,” his son Sergey later recalled, “and sometimes joked about them.” The great Russian writer claimed that “these novels always end up with him putting his arm round her waist, then they get married, and he inherits an estate and a baronetcy. These novelists end their novels with him and her getting married…
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