War and Peace

A beloved classic of world literature, War and Peace centers Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and studies the years around it through the lens of multiple wealthy families.
This book is an immediate and detailed rendering of life in Russia during the ruthless Napoleonic wars-from aristocratic soirees to duels over honor, mundanities of daily existence to brutalities of going into battle. Tolstoy's stories of the interlocking families grant readers a true panorama of the political and so...