Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
War and Peace - cover

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Redhouse

Publisher: Redhouse

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.
Available since: 03/12/2021.

Other books that might interest you

  • Poems about Paintings - cover

    Poems about Paintings

    James Sey

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This chapbook of poetry and prose pieces reflects philosophically and aesthetically on the relationships between art and the world, including through the global experience of Covid-related lockdowns. Though generally following an extended haiku-like format, some are longer prose poems, and an extended verse poem reflects on the city where the author lives, Johannesburg, South Africa.
    Show book
  • Short Poetry Collection 081 - cover

    Short Poetry Collection 081

    Various

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009.
    Show book
  • Edward III - cover

    Edward III

    William Shakespeare

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    RSC CLASSICS - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by the RSC in Stratford and the West End in 2002/03.
Officially attributed to Shakespeare only in 1998, Edward III is set in the age of chivalry and chronicles the beginning of the 100 Years War. Following the exploits of Edward, the Black Prince, is also acts as a prequel to Richard II.
Edited with an introduction by Roger Warren and preface by Gregory Doran.
The plays in the RSC Classics series reflect the diversity of styles, themes and subjects of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and include a 'new' addition to the Shakespeare canon.
    Show book
  • Dark Days Lonely Nights - cover

    Dark Days Lonely Nights

    D. R. Nguyen

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    We might not all feel love. But we all fault pain. 
Dark Days Lonely Nights captures what it feels like to feel depressed, grief, and isolation. In this captivating book of poetry and prose.
    Show book
  • Andromache - Greek & Roman Classics - cover

    Andromache - Greek & Roman Classics

    Euripides

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Euripides' classic tragedy in a full cast audio production. After Troy fell to the Greeks, Andromache, the wife of the slain Trojan king Hector, was taken as prize and given to Achilles' son Neoptolemus as his concubine. He treated her kindly, and in the fullness of time she bore him a son. But Neoptolemus went on to take as his wife Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, but she could bear him no children. Enraged with jealousy, Hermione plots the death of Andromache, and the play opens with Andromache taking sanctuary at the temple of Thetis, the goddess who is also Achilles' mother - Achilles, the man who killed her husband.
    Show book
  • Farewell -- But Whenever -- - cover

    Farewell -- But Whenever --

    Thomas More

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of Farewell! – But Whenever – by Thomas Moore.  This is the fortnightly poetry project for October 12, 2014.
    Show book