Book Drum [SEP] inception
of the most popular profiles include "War and Peace", "The Reader" and "Dracula".
The wiki is privately owned and operated by a British company, Book Drum Ltd, founded by Mark Negus, Hector Macdonald and George Pennock in November 2009.
Book Drum has organised two profile-building Tournaments, with authors including Kate Williams and Naomi Alderman as judges.
In November 2011, Book Drum launched a world map plotting all of the settings of the books covered on the site. The Map
the Arzamas Society kept the book on their table to amuse themselves from time to time, as Pyotr Vyazemsky remembered. Vasily Zhukovsky devoted the whole of his Arzamas inception speech to Khvostov's "Fables". Pyotr Vyazemsky, Vasily Zhukovsky, Anton Delvig, Ivan Dmitriev, Alexander Voeykov, Nikolay Yazykov and Alexander Izmaylov all wrote epigrams on Khvostov. In a satire called "A Singer in a Colloquy" Konstantin Batyushkov presented Khvostov as the cossack ataman Platov, "a reader's tyrant" whose poetry was "his drum, unbearable