human
As you read on you say, not, 'This is like life,' but, 'This is life.' It has not only the complexion, the very hue, of life, but its movement, its advances, its strange pauses, its seeming reversions to former conditions, and its perpetual change, its apparent isolations, its essential solidarity. It is a world, and you live in it while you read, and long afterward; but at no step have you been betrayed, not because your guide has warned or exhorted you, but because he has been true, and has shown you all things as they are.
gpt
The power of this book lies in the author's supreme control of the influences which affect human action, in his vivid apprehension of the operation of inexorable law, in his intuitive knowledge of the action and reaction of spiritual conditions. With a noble art he throws against the shadow, that deepens ever to the end, a radiant soul development that serenely grows brighter till we know it is Tolstoï himself, his experience, his best. It is a great book, and of such creations the most sincere admiration falls sadly short of fitting expression.
human
The effect of the whole is stimulating and elevating. The book is certainly one of decided genius.
gpt
It is difficult to speak of this noble book without incurring the suspicion of extravagance.
human
Will take rank among the great works of fiction of the age.
gpt
Characterized by all the breadth and complexity, the insight, and the profound analysis of 'Middlemarch.'
human
It is not undue praise to say that, since the publication of Goethe's 'Elective Affinities,' no such relentless analysis of the human emotions, and of the action and reaction of social relations, has appeared as is shown in Count Tolstoï's novel, 'Anna Karénina.'