War and PeaceSet in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly. |
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The Text of War and Peace | 3 |
A Chronology of Tolstoys Life | 1355 |
Dmitri Pisarev The Old Gentry | 1377 |
Copyright | |
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