Five years of Tolstoy's life were devoted to the writing of War & Peace (1864-69). Within its pages he marshaled a panoramic array of kings, princes & nobles as they lived & moved during the times of the Napoleonic wars. The leading characters principally belong to the highest Russian society...
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Five years of Tolstoy's life were devoted to the writing of War & Peace (1864-69). Within its pages he marshaled a panoramic array of kings, princes & nobles as they lived & moved during the times of the Napoleonic wars. The leading characters principally belong to the highest Russian society linked together by an inflexible code of law & custom, & affe
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