Comments on: 2011: A year for War & Peace http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Hank Thompson http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/#comment-209874 Hank Thompson Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:17:02 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13274#comment-209874 I haven't read War & Peace, but my comment re: this blog is...how is it possible that the book introduces 100,000 characters but is only 1,500 pages long? That's approximately 67 per page. What???? I haven’t read War & Peace, but my comment re: this blog is…how is it possible that the book introduces 100,000 characters but is only 1,500 pages long? That’s approximately 67 per page. What????

]]> By: Ann Schlee http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/#comment-205400 Ann Schlee Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:10:04 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13274#comment-205400 Question: Is Tolstoy hinting that Prince Andrei's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Kuragin? Let me know what you think. thanks. Question: Is Tolstoy hinting that Prince Andrei’s wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Kuragin?

Let me know what you think.

thanks.

]]> By: Anne Marie Blank http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/#comment-201387 Anne Marie Blank Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:50:07 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13274#comment-201387 Hi Nick, Thanks for motivating me to finish this book which I started before Christmas. It's hard to keep track of all the characters without a flowchart! Pete and I will be discussing the book as we skype. Who will finish first? Great seeing you and thanks for coming up to visit Pete while he was home. AMB Hi Nick,
Thanks for motivating me to finish this book which I started before Christmas. It’s hard to keep track of all the characters without a flowchart! Pete and I will be discussing the book as we skype. Who will finish first?
Great seeing you and thanks for coming up to visit Pete while he was home.
AMB

]]> By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » A War & Peace podcast http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/#comment-200785 OUPblog » Blog Archive » A War & Peace podcast Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:25:52 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13274#comment-200785 [...] Tweet Amy Mandelker has taught at UCLA, University of Southern California, Columbia, Brown, and Princeton Universities. Her books include Framing ‘Anna Karenina’: Tolstoy, the Woman Question & the Victorian Novel and Approaches to World Literature: Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’. She has revised the acclaimed Maude translation of War and Peace and recently sat down with Podularity to talk about it. (Read the audio guide breakdown here, where you can also get excerpts from this podcast.) Once you’re done, we welcome you to look back at Amy Mandelker’s blog posts and discover why Nick thinks you should read Tolstoy. [...] [...] Tweet Amy Mandelker has taught at UCLA, University of Southern California, Columbia, Brown, and Princeton Universities. Her books include Framing ‘Anna Karenina’: Tolstoy, the Woman Question & the Victorian Novel and Approaches to World Literature: Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’. She has revised the acclaimed Maude translation of War and Peace and recently sat down with Podularity to talk about it. (Read the audio guide breakdown here, where you can also get excerpts from this podcast.) Once you’re done, we welcome you to look back at Amy Mandelker’s blog posts and discover why Nick thinks you should read Tolstoy. [...]

]]> By: Tweets that mention Nick has some very strong opinions about this book: -- Topsy.com http://blog.oup.com/2011/01/tolstoy/#comment-200708 Tweets that mention Nick has some very strong opinions about this book: -- Topsy.com Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:59:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=13274#comment-200708 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by abdus salam, Lauren. Lauren said: Nick has some very strong opinions about this book: http://bit.ly/hgRUJ1 [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by abdus salam, Lauren. Lauren said: Nick has some very strong opinions about this book: http://bit.ly/hgRUJ1 [...]

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