Round 7: Tossup 8

A critic from this country who quipped “Fish are born to fly, and everywhere they swim” is the subject of Aileen Kelly’s The Discovery of Chance. A critic from this country wrote a harsh letter that claims the public is forgiving for a bad book “but never for a (15[1])pernicious one.” The memoir My Past and Thoughts is by a writer from this country who coined the phrase “Genghis Khan with the telegraph.” A collection of essays on this country’s (*) 19th-century thinkers inspired Tom Stoppard to portray the editor of The Contemporary in The Coast of Utopia. An (10[1])author from this country (-5[1])failed to express “one big thing” in his theory of history according to Isaiah Berlin. (-5[1])For 10 points, “The Hedgehog and the Fox” comments on a Christian anarchist from what country who wrote Resurrection, The Kreutzer Sonata, and War and Peace? ■END■ (10[2])

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