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Week 9 Recap: The End of Volume One
War and Peace

Week 9 Recap: The End of Volume One

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Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 05, 2022
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Napoleon at Fontainebleau, by Paul Delaroche (some history of the painting found here)

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its second week of fighting, the relevance of this 155-year-old novel grows and grows, doesn’t it? I’ve heard from a lot of you about how weird it is to be reading War and Peace right now, when mere weeks ago it didn’t seem possible tha…

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