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...The 20-part BBC dramatisation in 1972 may have been a bit too much, beginning ominously with three minutes of a footman setting dinner plates on Count Rostov’s table, though Anthony Hopkins inhabited Pierre...
...The austere Georgian building was as grey as an Ascot topper. It’s a fine old house. How many rooms, I asked? “Twenty-one, twenty-two,” Donleavy said, uncertainly....
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