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  2. The standard Russian text of War and Peace is divided into four volumes, comprising fifteen books, and an epilogue split into two parts. Roughly the first half is concerned strictly with the fictional characters, whereas the latter parts, as well as the second part of the epilogue, increasingly consist of essays about the nature of war, power ...

  3. War and Peace is a terrific date book, because it's got lots of bloody action and also tons of romance, plus you can make out during the dull parts where Tolstoy's talking for like twelve pages about various generals and strategies and his nineteenth-centuried out opinions about history.

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  4. Feb 24, 2009 · War and Peace, Tolstoy's 2nd greatest novel after Anna Karenina, can be read as a series of shorter novels so as not to intimidate the reader: the 4 volumes are each around 300 pages, and it ends with 100 pages in (not 1 but) 2 epilogues.

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  5. By 1868 three volumes had been released and were selling rapidly. Tolstoy finished three more volumes between 1868 and 1869. Sofya had copied several drafts, all by hand. All told, War and Peace filled more than 1,200 pages when first published.

  6. Dec 2, 2008 · • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual ...

  7. Nov 17, 2023 · War and Peace has approximately 1,440 pages, making it one of the longest novels ever written. This epic novel by Leo Tolstoy is a literary masterpiece that explores themes of love, war, and the human condition during the Napoleonic era in Russia.

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