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War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy; Transl. a. with an introd. by Rosemary Edmonds is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel begins in the year 1805 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and leads up to the 1812 French invasion of Russia by Napoleon. The era of Catherine the Great (1762–1796), when the royal court in Paris was the centre of western European civilization,[16] is still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine, fluent in French and wishing to reshape Russia into a great European nation, made French the language of her royal court. For the next one hundred years, it became a social requirement for members of the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French culture.[16] This historical and cultural context in the aristocracy is reflected in War and Peace. Catherine's grandson, Alexander I, came to the throne in 1801 at the age of 24. In the novel, his mother, Marya Feodorovna, is the most powerful woman in the Russian court. War and Peace tells the story of five aristocratic families — the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins and the Drubetsko

Who reads War and Peace (Penguin Classics)?

Author

Leo Tolstoy; Transl. a. with an introd. by Rosemary Edmonds

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140444179

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4.11 / 5 (828 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14