Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are exemplary here. It's not whether the characters rise or fall, it's _how_. The plots of both Anna Karenina and "Crime and Punishment"

Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are exemplary here. It's not whether the characters rise or fall, it's _how_. The plots of both Anna Karenina and "Crime and Punishment" seem pretty unoriginal, but my gosh, the journey while you read them is incredible.