📖 The Great Tolstoy Mission

Details:

📚 The Great Tolstoy Mission: War & Peace — Session 3 out of 10 (Book Volume 2)

📍 Vancouver Central Library — Room 492, 4th floor (North room)
(350 W Georgia St; from elevators go left, then far right corner)
🗓️ Saturday Nov 8th, 12PM
Hosted by: Vancouver Classics Plays / Novels

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### Session 3 Reading Assignment

War & Peace — Volume 2

> We will read until "In 1808 the Emperor Alexander went to Erfurt for a fresh interview with the Emperor Napoleon...

### What to expect

• Meet (or revisit) the cast and how Tolstoy sets up fate, history, agency, meaning
• Salon talk vs. battlefield reality, what surprised you most?
• Tolstoy’s craft: how short chapters + quick POV shifts make crowds feel real

Bring: your copy (optional), a question or favorite detail, and your first impressions—whether you finished the volume or sampled it. Newcomers welcome.

### Translation map (we’ll keep this in every post)

• Vol I = Parts/Books 1–3
• Vol II = Parts/Books 4–8
• Vol III = Parts/Books 9–11
• Vol IV = Parts/Books 12–15
• Epilogue = Part 1 & Part 2

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📩 RSVP to confirm your seat. Message me if you want a short recap or reading guide ahead of time.(also I have free pdf versions of the book if you want)

Let’s climb this mountain one Volume at a time.