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๐ท๐บ War and Peace
Tolstoy's monumental novel of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars
Russia 1869 World Classics
๐ Key Facts
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580,000-word novel by Leo Tolstoy, published 1869; one of the longest ever written
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Follows 5 aristocratic families against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia
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Tolstoy began writing it in 1863 โ his wife, Sophia Tolstaya, copied the manuscript by hand 7 times
One of the longest novels ever written at 1,225 pages โ Tolstoy rewrote it 7 times
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๐ World Classics
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๐ท๐บ Russia
Year / Era
1869
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Tolstoy's monumental novel of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars