Reading ‘War and Peace’ in Both War and Peace
How Leo Tolstoy’s Classic Novel Travels Across the Many Seasons of Life
Summer before last I started reading Leo Tolstoy’s 1867 classic War and Peace aloud to my husband and our older children, aged eleven and sixteen. This year, just as spring was shading into summer again, we finished it.
It didn’t really take a full two years to read—we took last summer off to work our way through Shakespeare’s Roman plays. And we only re…
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