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War and Peace
Classic fiction
War and Peace
1,392 pages · First published 1868
Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, and Natasha Rostova move through Russian aristocratic society as Napoleon’s wars reshape both their private lives and their country. Love affairs, marriages, deaths, military campaigns, family fortunes, and philosophical crises unfold across a huge cast whose lives intersect over many years. Tolstoy repeatedly shifts from intimate domestic scenes to battlefields and essays on history, questioning whether great events are truly controlled by famous leaders. War and Peace is both an epic historical novel and an inquiry into freedom, fate, family, faith, and the ordinary human lives carried through extraordinary national upheaval.
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