A set of two books - Self-development according to Tolstoy + Farewell, sadness

In "Self-development according to Tolstoy," Viv Groskop uses his own experiences and the fates of Russian classics to show that even the most difficult situation can be solved with the help of literature: "Anna Karenina" alleviates the crisis of identity, Turgenev's play "A Month in the Country" helps to cope with unrequited love, and "The Master and Margarita" aids in dealing with the most severe circumstances. 
Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anna Akhmatova, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, and others in Groskop's book are not bronze monuments but living people who also suffered and doubted; they were overwhelmed by thousands of passions, yet managed to preserve their dignity and remained themselves.
Like Groskop's previous book "Self-development according to Tolstoy," "Farewell, sadness!" helps to rethink the classics, finding something new and relevant in them. Behind the funny and witty facade lie lessons of nostalgia from Proust, altruism from Hugo, psychology from Stendhal, and even a lesson about love for mustaches from Maupassant.