Novel · 1869
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1869 · Russian · 19th Century
War and Peace
Five families through Napoleon's invasion, plus a theory of history.
Historical fictionRealismHistoryFamilyWarChance
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Tolstoy dissolves the great-man theory into a million small causes — and then writes Natasha's first ball so well that the argument feels lived rather than proved.
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