Over the past few years, if I'm not mistaken, they only added Solzhenitsyn to the program.
"War and Peace," by the way, is a great book. Everyone is intimidated by its size, but it's actually quite engaging. Only the last few chapters, where it's all philosophy (the same idea is expressed and repeated for many, many pages), are unreadable, that's true.
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Hmm, how did the teacher end up here? Interesting.
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It's a myth that we get "a lot," believe me.