I love that this week of reading is actually set in early July. It’s just perfect. Throughout the book, Tolstoy’s descriptions of the seasons have been just breathtaking, and his rendering of a hot summer day in Chapter 18 is rather appropriate:
“It was a hot July day. Even at ten in the morning, as the Rostovs descended from their carriage by the chape…
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