War and Peace Summary
Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace Summary

War and Peace is a historical novel that chronicles the tumultuous events inRussiaduring the Napoleonic war in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on an aristocratic way of life that had al-ready started to fade at the time that Leo Tolstoy wrote the book in the 1860s, it covers a comparatively short span of time—fifteen years—but it renders the lives of disparate characters from all segments of society with vivid, well-realized details...

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