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Week 1 Recap: A Party, a Bear, and a Conqueror
War and Peace

Week 1 Recap: A Party, a Bear, and a Conqueror

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Jeremy Anderberg
Jan 08, 2022
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I hope everyone is enjoying diving into the reading of War and Peace!

For those who have read it before, the slow pace of only one chapter per day allows for really savoring the novel. For anyone reading it for the first time, I hope you are finding Tolstoy’s writing approachable. While there are a lot of characters introduced here in the beginning, ove…

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