Written by Dan Malone on Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

100 members of the Iowa City community are bringing the 600 characters of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy to life. University students and staff, actors and other members of the community took turns reading the novel about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. It’s being done to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of […]

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author who is best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works falls into the realist fiction genre, looking at what it was like to live in the same surroundings as he did. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of […]

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