War & Peace Podnotes, A Study Guide

This podcast has made it through a commentary on the first ten chapters of War & Peace. It has compiled literally dozens of views - okay, my attempts at humor can be self-effacing.There are over 360 chapters in this book (and chapter can differ by the version you are picking up). Nevertheless, every three and a half chapters will amount to 1% of the book. Covering 10 chapters indicates just over 3% of the novel has been discussed, so completion of this project can be expected………much further than I would like to imagine.It is no overestimate to say classic literature is under-appreciated, even this classic of classics. Often not appreciated is that War & Peace centers on Napoleon and the lead-up to his June 1812 invasion of Russia. The connections between Russia and the French of also unexplored, as the aristocracy of Russia generally spoke French to one another (though it was a relatively crude form) and the Russian language was more popular among the peasantry. Ukrainian was also spoken among farmer