Tolstoy is perhaps not the best example because he had little to do with the spelling, grammar, and sentence structure of his English language works. This was a

Tolstoy is perhaps not the best example because he had little to do with the spelling, grammar, and sentence structure of his English language works. This was all done by the respective translator after the fact. A better author to use would be someone like Nabokov or Hemingway who originally wrote in English.