Instructional Video4:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Alex Gendler: Why should you read "The Master and Margarita"?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Devil has come to town. But don't worry– all he wants to do is stage a magic show. This absurd premise forms the central plot of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece, "The Master and Margarita." Its blend of political satire, historical...
Instructional Video4:32
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Alex Gendler: Why should you read "Crime and Punishment"?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer's mind? And what kind of a society breeds such people? Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the...
Instructional Video12:31
PBS

War and Peace and Everything Else (Feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes)

12th - Higher Ed
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...