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Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton perform a scene from Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ at the Dickens vs Tolstoy event, 2nd October 2018

Tom Hiddleston at the Dickens Vs Tolstoy Debate, London

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Jack and others presenting at Letters That Changed The World, an Intelligence2 event 28/2/19

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Dickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists

Dickens. Tolstoy. Their names and reputations shake the ground - and so do their books, if you drop one. They are the two greatest novelists from the century when novels were really great. They captured their countries' very soul and, as vastly influential social reformers, savagely critised them as well. But whose legacy is more enduring? Whose vision truer and more relevant today? Should you embark on War and Peace or Our Mutual Friend?

To battle it out, Intelligence Squared brought two celebrated writers, John Mullan for Dickens and Simon Schama for Tolstoy, to our stage. They called on a cast of star actors, including Tom Hiddleston, to bring their arguments to life with readings from the authors' finest works.