War & Peace (Annotated)

War & Peace is Tolstoy's vast historical novel of Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, interweaving the fortunes of the Rostovs, Bolkonskys, and Bezukhovs with the convulsions of European history. Combining domestic realism, philosophical meditation, battlefield reportage, and psychological portraiture, it redefined the possibilities of the novel. Its style moves from intimate social observation to ...