"Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life, by war, and by the intersection of their lives with each other. Hundreds of characters populate War and Peace, many of them historical persons, including Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I, and all of them come to life under Tolstoy’s deft hand."

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[–] bunkyprewster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I read it many years ago. It was good. Not as straightforward a story as Anna Karnenina, but it kept pulling me along and felt very worthwhile.