Welcome to Footnotes and Tangents. I am your guide, Simon Haisell, and this is a year-long slow read of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a chapter a day.

Each week, I dive into the detail, with summaries, background, footnotes and tangents to enrich your reading.

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