alt Hacker NewsI read War and Peace recently, is it the same amount of characters? At some point I almost started a genealogical tree of the characters.
I read War and Peace recently, is it the same amount of characters? At some point I almost started a genealogical tree of the characters.
Regarding Brothers, I don't think it's that much more than the average novel of that length. What I think trips foreign readers up the most is the constant use of Russian diminutive names e.g. substituting Alyosha for Alexei or Mitenka for Dmitri.