War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. KaufmanWar and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. |
Contents
Pierre at Prince Andrews | |
Pierre at Anatole Kurágins Dólokhovs bet 4 A name day at the Rostóvs | |
Natásha and Borís | |
At Count Bezúkhovs Prince Vasíli and Catiche | |
Anna Mikháylovna and Pierre at Count Bezúkhovs | |
Anna Mikháylovna and Catiche struggle for the inlaid portfolio | |
Bald Hills Prince N A Bolkónski Princess Marys correspondence with Julie Karágina | |
Prince Andrew at Bald Hills | |
Prince Andrew leaves to join the army Princess Mary gives him an icon | |
BOOK | |
Review near Braunau Zherkóv and Dólokhov | |
Anna Mikháylovna and Borís go to the dying Count Bezúkhovs | |
Pierre at his fathers house talks with Borís | |
Countess Rostóva and Anna Mikháylovna | |
Dinner at the Rostóvs Márya Dmítrievna | |
Sónya and Natásha Nicholas sings The Daniel Cooper | |
Kutúzov and an Austrian general Le malheureux Mack Zherkóvs foolery 3 Nicholas and Denísov Telyánin and the missing purse | |
Nicholas in trouble with his fellow officers | |
Crossing the Enns Burning the bridge Rostóvs baptism of fire | |
Prince Andrew sent with dispatches to the Austrian court The Minister of | |
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