War and Peace (Annotated)

War and Peace is Tolstoy's vast meditation on history, society, and moral awakening, set against the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the intimate dramas of aristocratic families such as the Rostovs, Bolkonskys, and Bezukhovs. Blending realist fiction, philosophical essay, military chronicle, and domestic novel, it challenges heroic accounts of history by emphasizing contingency, collective actio...