In this podcast episode I discuss Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's mammoth of a book, War and Peace. Topics discussed include how to read Tolstoy's War and Peace, the importance of the French language in the work, how the publishing practice of serialization influenced writing in the 19th century, and what I thought was the most important theme in War and Peace: personal and spiritual transformation. 

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