Rank 43 of 100
War and Peace
Also known as Voyna i mir
Synopsis
Tolstoy follows several Russian families through the Napoleonic invasion, from ballroom strategy to the road out of a burning Moscow. The book keeps stopping to argue that history is not made by great men, then returns to a shy, searching count who is trying to live as if that were true.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1869
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Historical, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Realist
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 1,225 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction