He depicts a vast array of characters (nearly 600 in all) from all walks of life, each one of them remarkably real and irreducibly individual. No character is too small and no subject too large for Tolstoy's broad literary canvas. In 361 chapters (approximately 1500 pages), the author moves back and forth between ballrooms and battlefields, marriages and massacres, private lives and public spectacles.
In War and Peace, Tolstoy maintains a delicate balance between stirring scenes of major historical events and intimate portraits of daily life. Considered by many critics to be the greatest novel ever created, War and Peace was written and published before Anna Karenina, from 1865 to 1869 (when Tolstoy was in his late 30s), and it traces the journeys of four aristocratic families-the Bezukhovs, Bolkonskies, Rostovs and Kuragins-whose personal lives become caught up in the tumultuous events of the time.
War and Peace is an historical epic that tells the story of Russia’s wars with Napoleon at the beginning of the nineteenth century, culminating in Napoleon’s failed invasion of Russia in 1812.
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