Apr 11, 2016 05:49 PM
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Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ is a very vast epic based on Napoleon’s war with Russia. Tolstoy peoples his novel with a large cast of over Five Hundred characters and the first publication year of this book is 1869 .First, Time I have read this book and I really loved it. At more than 1000-1600 pages, this book is one of the longest and popular book of all time. This book masterfully describes the history of Russia from the end of the 18th century and into the first third of the 1880s. The writing of Leo Tolstoy’s writing is easily readable and easily understand.
Contents and Focus:- This Novel contains Three Volumes and Fifteen Books.This Novel provides a very interesting and in – depth glimpse into this unusual society of that time . The major focus of this is on two topics. First is the Russian – French war of 1805 and 1812. The writer described the wars and in particular the battles of Austerlitz and Borodino in very vast detail. Napoleon, Andrey Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezoukhov, Kutuzov and Nikolay Rostov and are the main characters in this Novel.
I love this book and I will definitely recommend ‘War and Peace’ to everyone because it is a very beautiful book which contains very valuable thoughts. Wordsworth’s Edition is one of the best translation and this is the one which received Tolstoy’s approval.
