alterations

Connoisseurs of the Russian novel could have foretold with certainty
that this fresh, still youthful novel would lose its harmony before
thirty years had passed; it would "spread", that the thick cover would
become puffy, and that wrinkles would very soon appear upon the
fronticepiece and round the colophon; the texture of the pages would
grow coarse and smudged perhaps--in fact, that
it was only a novel of the moment, the fleeting novel which is so
often read by Russian women.

- Dostoyevsky (with modifications), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.html