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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Historical Novel
Year
Year 1869
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 1300

As Napoleon marches on Russia, a handful of aristocratic families love, duel, go broke and go to war, and a bumbling bear of a count stumbles through it all toward the meaning of life.

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes.
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

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