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@SmartyPants: Well, I can't judge about Tolstoy or any of the others, but what I read of Dostoyevsky certainly does give the impression that the bloke could've used an editor. At times his novels is more of a stream of consciousness than a story that moves forward.
About Without Family being a popular children book: I knew there was a reason I like Russia so much. (Though, granted, that has more to do with the contrasts found in St Petersburg than a French novel.)
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