War and Peace
1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир) is a famous novel written by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer. It is about four families of noblemen in Russia during the wars with Napoleon, and how they deal with the war and with one another.
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Tolstoy described War and Peace as "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle."[1]
The book describes Russian life in the 19th century, and also tells about Tolstoy's own idea about free will, history, and how events unfold.