"As the lovable immature work of children compared with the work of grown men they appear to us ; and it is still more strange to consider that, while much of Thackeray and Dickens seems to us far away and obsolete, this story of Tolstoy’s reads as if it had been written a month or two ago."
-Virginia Woolf, 1917
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/unsurpassable-tolstoy/
"As the lovable immature work of children compared with the work of grown men they appear to us ; and it is still more strange to consider that, while much of Thackeray and Dickens seems to us far away and obsolete, this story of Tolstoy’s reads as if it had been written a month or two ago." -Virginia Woolf, 1917 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/unsurpassable-tolstoy/