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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

The story of five families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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Anna Pávlovna declares Napoleon the Antichrist before she even asks how you are—war hasn't started, but her words already have. Prince Vasíli replies with the practiced ease of a man who's said the same things a hundred times. In a St. Petersburg salon in 1805, they discuss Russia's fate in French, and the real fight is just beneath the surface.

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