Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · Historical fiction
Five aristocratic families navigate love, ambition, and survival across Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. The most ambitious novel in the Western canon: six hundred characters, fifteen years of history, and a philosophical meditation on what drives historical events. Intimidating in reputation, propulsive in practice.
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Leo TolstoyRussian · 1828–1910
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) wrote two novels widely considered among the greatest in any language — War and Peace and Anna Karenina — and dozens of shorter works that demonstrate the same compassionate observation at smaller scale.
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