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And I've moved both books up from reading someday to reading soon. But even that pile is getting out of hand.

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Believe me, I know what you mean.

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Morson has a new book coming out in May called "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on The Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter". Another book to add to the list.

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Morson's introduction is available online under the search "The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina". Marian Schwartz, who apparently has translated over 70 volumes of Russian literature, has given interviews on translating Tolstoy. Her translation of AK was published in 2015. I started the Morson book this evening. Trying to follow my own advice of Do It Now.

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