Sean Roman

War & Peace Podnotes, A Study Guide

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The episode and episode descriptions will provide information, context and commentary on how each chapter plays out. The goal is for each episode to be under 10 minutes. There are multiple English versions of W&P containing variations in the translation of Tolstoy's French and Russian. The original work fluctuates back and forth between these two languages. There are also variations on how War & Peace is chaptered. This podcast follows the commonly used chapters contained in Penguin Classics and the Everyman's Library.

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Sean Roman

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Bk. 1, Pt. 1, Ch. 2: Entrer, Pierre Bezukhov 01.09.2019 9:17

Attendant to the Empress, Anna Anna Pávlovna Schérer, is proud to have some of St. Petersburg's finest nobles in her drawing room. Princess Hélène Kuragina is noted by all to be strikingly gorgeous. Little Princess Lise is upset her husband, Price Andrei Bolknosky, has joined the military cooalition against Napoleon. She is pregnant with their first child and is worried about soon becoming a w...

Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 1: Soirée in St. Petersburg, July 1805 01.08.2019 9:22

Podnotes by Sean Roman are intended as a study guide and to provide common sense descriptions and context to this great work. Chapter 1 introduces the antagonist, Napoleon , who is being discussed at an evening soirée as a threat to all Europe. The hostess, Anna Pávlovna Schérer, an unmarried socialite who is an attendant to the Empress, posits that only Emperor Alexander can save Europe from the...

Introduction to War & Peace Podnotes 01.03.2019 7:52

The goal of podcast is to supplement your reading of War & Peace with a down-to-earth description of what is happening and to provide commentary as well as context. Most episodes summarize a chapter. Particularly complex chapters are divided into two episodes. The episode descriptions can also assist readers with descriptions on how each chapter plays out. Each podcast is expected to come in u...