u/Impressive_Pilot1068

I’m sure there are many extensions that do this on desktop, I could vibe code one if there aren’t, but is there any way to block apps and websites of my choosing till I’m done with daily reviews on AnkiMobile (the iOS app) ?

It's the one that the following is excerpted from:

>What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was to able express in the form in which it was expressed.

I liked this quote about the book from the author himself, and found out that it is part of an Appendix to the book entitled "A Few Words on War and Peace". I could not find the original text in Project Gutenberg's version.

Does anyone have the full text that the above quote is derived from?

Also, I've only yet reached Chapter XVII of Book 1 and I already *love* this wonder of literature and collective human experience (history) distilled in beautiful prose. NO SPOILERS please. If anyone has read the article by Tolstoy that I'm looking for, does it have any spoilers?

I’ve read Anna Karenina. That’s all I’ve ever read from Tolstoy before. Crime and Punishment and some short stories by Dostoyevsky are the only other Russian literature I’ve ever read.

The plan was to read The Count of Monte Cristo, Napoleon : A Life (by Andrew Roberts), Les Misérables, and only then War and Peace; in that order.

I finished Monte Cristo and then I felt like War and Peace called me to read it. I don’t know if this is the right time for me to start it, and yet I have started it. I am not disappointed by Book 1 Chapter 1 at all.

It has established the setting and shown a few characters, while setting up others that I am sure will be important in the subsequent chapters and maybe the story as a whole, if War and Peace even has something that could be considered a story.

I’m reading the Maude translation.

I’m open to any thoughts, perspectives and opinions.

All of human wisdom in two words :)