Yo, Tolstoy! You See What Andrew Davies Did With War and Peace? Relax. Give Jane Austen a Call

Leo Tolstoy might have been surprised by a few of the scenes in the new television adaptation of War and Peace, just as Jane Austen might have been surprised 20 years ago by a few scenes in the 1995 television version of Pride & Prejudice.

But both Tolstoy and Austen very likely would have understood, and perhaps even approved, because the man who wrote both adaptations, Andrew Davies, made those scenes connect so seamlessly to everything else the characters thought, did and were.

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