Ten of the best floggings

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best floggings in fiction.One novel on the list:War and Peace by Leo TolstoyCorporal punishment commonly epitomises the collapse of humanity in Tolstoy's fiction. Kind, peaceable Pierre comes upon a flogging of a French cook in a Moscow square. Accused of being a spy, the Frenchman is flogged. A crowd of "officials, burghers, shopkeepers, peasants and