Just watched Episode 4 of Vanity Fair: the battle of Waterloo, Miss Crawley's death, Dobbins' departure for India, and the introduction of sleazy Lord Steyn. Margaret Mitchell got so much of Gone with the Wind out of this book, and Tolstoy must have read it. The evacuation of Moscow, 1812, is so much like the panicked evacuation of Brussels, and the burning of Atlanta. The whole Becky-Rawdon-Rawdon, Jr. has so many resonances with the Scarlett-Rhett-Bonnie parent-child situation, only Scarlett's nice than Miss Sharpe.