Book Excerpt for the Day

    "I came here today with curiosity, with excitement.  I wanted to see for myself and make up my own mind whether this uppercrust of Russian society is really good for nothing and has out-lived its time, is drained of its ancient life and only fit to die, but still persists in a petty, endless strife with the men... of the future, getting in their way and not conscious that it is dying itself."


(from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky)


9*/10.  The full review is here.