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War and Peace and Everything Else
Season 2
Episode 7
According to Tolstoy himself, War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle." And in this day and age of publishing, where word count, “readability”, and topical relevance are the lifeline of getting a novel to print, we look at books like War & Peace as something of a relic.
7:43
Get to know the story behind some of literature’s most iconic book covers.
5:47
Why are some books required reading in high school while others are lost to history?
6:00
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic!
5:53
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre.
6:10
The origin story of science fiction is shaped throughout several centuries.
5:43
Lindsay Ellis explores how Young Adult Fiction carved a place in publishing .
5:29
Which is better, the book or the movie?