War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1456 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Eschewing the "great man" theory of history, Tolstoy shows how events are determined by large numbers of people whose actions coalesce at any moment in history to determine the course of events. Arguing that the closer people are to a situation th...

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