War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1869
Translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude
Word count: 561,304 words (≈ about 37 hours)
Source: Wikisource
Copyright: Public Domain
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