It’s finally here! The War and Peace team takes on Natasha’s Dance, immersing ourselves in the spirit of Russia and discussing the central significance of this passage to the story. Along the way, we compare Sonya’s transformation to Natasha’s and wonder about Nikolai’s relational crises.
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A hunting we will go! In this episode, the War and Peace team launches into Volume 2 Part 4, where we spend lots of quality time with the Rostovs and their aristocratic extracurricular activities.
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We wrap up Volume 2 Part 3 in this episode with a discussion about Tolstoy’s vision of romantic love, the characters’ relationship to truth telling, and (you’ll be warned!) this section’s profound foreshadowing for the rest of the novel.
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Tolstoy has touched on military glory, politics, and social stratifications. Now it’s time to conquer his next great idea: love. In this episode, the War and Peace team discuss Andrei’s latest endeavor and its influence on everyone around him.
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It’s Natasha’s day in the spotlight! Ian, Emily, and Megan discuss Rostov family dynamics, Natasha’s balance of insight and immaturity, and the preparations for the Important Character Reunion ball.
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Andrei is journeying further into the heart of Russian government while Pierre is journeying further into the heart of Freemasonry, and our hosts are along for the ride! In this episode, Ian, Emily, and Megan discuss Andrei’s fascination with Speransky, Pierre’s relationship with the demands of virtue, and the continued similarities between these characters.
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In this episode, Ian, Emily, and Megan are checking in with Andrei. This guy packs a lot of action into five chapters with a sudden conversion experience, new political responsibilities, and a potential romance on the horizon.
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While our HEE crew takes the week off, we’re reposting an episode that went up on CenterForLit’s BiblioFiles channel recently. Ian, Emily, and Megan discuss Tolstoy’s treatise What Is Art? and discuss how it influences our reading of War and Peace. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week on Wednesday March 3rd!
In this episode, the War and Peace team takes a hard look at the inner workings of the Russian army and speculates about the coming period of peace with France.
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It’s time to take the philosophical temperature of our story thus far! In this episode, Ian, Emily, and Megan wrestle through Pierre and Andrei’s existential angst and add their own voices to their debate.
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Between the reappearance of Boris, the peek into Andrei’s new home life, and Pierre’s charitable expedition, Ian, Emily, and Megan have a lot of ground to cover in this episode.
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The War and Peace gang follows Pierre into the mysterious world of the Freemasons with a little help from the For Dummies series.
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Hearts are breaking all over the place in this selection from War and Peace. We talk about Rostov parenting, Nikolai’s bad decisions, and Ian finally gets a chance to tell us what he really thinks about Dolokhov.
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In this episode, the War and Peace team “works” through Pierre’s inner turmoil, revisits the dynamics of the Bolkonsky family, and bids farewell to Liza of the small brown mustache.
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We’re back! And Pierre is starting our new year with a bang. Ian, Emily, and Megan work their way through Nikolai’s homecoming, Bagration’s party, and the events leading up to the part where Pierre breaks all of the ten duel commandments.
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The War and Peace gang takes an opportunity to look back over where we’ve come thus far. This is a great chance to step back and see the big picture if you’ve been following us for a while, or to jump in and join us without worrying about our backlog of episodes!
We catalogue our main characters, summarizing where they’ve been and looking forward to where they might go, and then we touch on the major thematic threads Tolstoy has developed in Volume 1.
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The gang welcomes Napoleon Bonaparte to the stage and wraps up the first Volume of War and Peace with an extensive look at Prince Andrei’s strange moment of revelation. Be sure to stay tuned for programming details concerning the next phase of the show!
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The War and Peace team talks through Kutuzov’s leadership, Andrei’s moment of self-reflection, and the first signs of Tolstoy’s philosophy of history.
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Characters fall in love and vie for power while the War and Peace team members prepare themselves for the Battle of Austerliz.
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Enthused by the return of Pierre, our team compares the foil relationships outlined in this section and has one of their best conversations to date.
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