War and Peace (Summarized Edition)

War and Peace distills the upheavals of 1805–1812 into an intimate panorama of five aristocratic families—Rostovs, Bolkonskys, and the newly ennobled Bezukhovs—set against Austerlitz, Borodino, and the burning of Moscow. Leo graf Tolstoy fuses documentary breadth with psychological interiority, alternating battlefield telemetry with salon conversations and domestic rites. His narrator dissolves th...