- Classic, History, Russian Empire, Fiction
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.
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Epic, earnest, prestige and meticulous.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Лев Толстой
- First published
- April 1970
- Pages
- 696
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, IndyPublish.com, Canterbury Classics
- Editions
- 647
- Language
- Spanish, gre, Dutch, hun
- ISBN
- 9781524881993
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“'WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.”
Лев Николаевич Толстой (9 сентября 1828 – 20 ноября 1910) – русский писатель. Он считается одним из величайших и самых влиятельных авторов всех времён. Среди наиболее известных произведений Толстого – романы «Война и мир» (1869) и «Анна Каренина» (1878), которые часто называют вершинами реалистической прозы и двумя величайшими книгами всех времён. ---------- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Tolstoy's notable works include the novels *War and Peace* (1869) and *Anna Karenina* (1878),
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