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The Melting Sky
Category: Books and Stories
I've been reading War and Peace, and I'm currently on the chapters of Book VII where Rostov goes hunting. Tolstoy doesn't do a whole lot of flowery descriptions of landscapes and weather, but when he does, it's magnificent. Here are the first two paragraphs of Book VII, Chapter 3: The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains. The verdure ha... » Continue Reading