War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation)
Author: first_name: Leo
last_name: Tolstoy
Language: English
Year: 1889

I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist.  He is often careless about accuracy.  Numberless incongruities can be pointed out.  He is as willing to adopt an anachronism as a medieval painter.  I would defy an historian to reconstruct the battle of Austerlitz from Count Tolstoy's description.  And yet what a picture of a battle was ever more vivid!  It is like a painting where the general impression is true, but a close analysis disc