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War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

Date: Thursday 19 November
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls College, Hovenden Room 

This reading group explores the writing of history in the historical novel. In Michaelmas and Hilary Term will be exploring Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace (1869). 

To join our mailing list, please contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk 

Session 6: The St Petersburg Court

  • Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume II, Part 3

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    Optional reading: Madame de Stael, Ten Years in Exile, or Memoirs, pp. 340-357, pp. 361-377 (PDF in this folder)

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      More optional, for those who have already read Volume 4: Julie Mitchell, “Natasha and Hélène,” in The Novel, Volume 2 (Princeton University Press, 2022, link): 534–40. 

 

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