The Western Literary Canon in Context

East Meets West in War and Peace (1x28)


Air date: Jan 01, 2008

What and where is happiness? It takes hundreds of characters and a wealth of events for Leo Tolstoy to answer this question in War and Peace. Learn what makes this political novel a debatable member of the Western canon and another reflection of the porous boundaries between East and West.

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