I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto EcoLove flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
Umberto EcoWe stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.
Umberto EcoBut it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
Umberto Eco