WAR AND PEACE

War and Peace

War and Peace

Brief Analysis

War and Peace is a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the greatest works of world fiction. It is considered, along with Anna Karenina (1873-7) and his best literary achievement.

War and Peace "outlines in graphic detail the events ahead of the invasion of Napoleon in Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era to the royal society, as seen the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Parts of the earlier versions being serialized in the journal Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867, a novel was first published in full in ...