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Originally Posted by Ak Mike
Tolstoy's attempt at the same thing, expressing political insights in his fiction, is much less successful. His political digressions detract from the story - plus, in the case of his War and Peace theories about the invasion of Russia, he's a crackpot.
(Let me repeat what I said earlier: no question that Tolstoy is a greater novelist than Orwell.)
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Tolstoy reminds me of Shaw - a man of great intellect but little common sense. Orwell, OTOH, seems to have been a very sensible man.