War and Peace

Work in progress!

War and Peace
By Leo Tolstoy
Date of translation unknown as of yet

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BOOK 1: 1805       BOOK 2: 1805


Chapter 1          Chapter 1
Chapter 2          Chapter 2
Chapter 3          Chapter 3
Chapter 4          Chapter 4
Chapter 5          Chapter 5
Chapter 6          Chapter 6
Chapter 7          Chapter 7
Chapter 8          Chapter 8
Chapter 9          Chapter 9
Chapter 10         Chapter 10
Chapter 11         Chapter 11
Chapter 12         Chapter 12
Chapter 13         Chapter 13
Chapter 14         Chapter 14
Chapter 15         Chapter 15
Chapter 16         Chapter 16
Chapter 17         Chapter 17
Chapter 18         Chapter 18
Chapter 19         Chapter 19
Chapter 20         Chapter 20
Chapter 21         Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28

(I apologize if this chapter listing looks REALLY crappy on any web browser you people may be using. Once I fiugre out how to properly format it without using nasty pre tags It'll be better I promise. For whatever reason, I can't seem to create a table of more than one column. Perhaps it is forbidden.)

It's been brought to my attention that this, regardless of being a public domain work, needs a source cited so I'ma give a shout out to Project Gutenberg for being such a wonderful literature source.

War and Peace - by some accounts one of the best romantic novels of the Tolstoy era, creates an atmosphere of despair, loyalty and love to the profound reader. Considered lengthy by some (a full 1500 pages), the novel nonetheless has generated a large following and is hailed as a breakthrough in the analysis of Romanticism in both Russia and the world.

We are now the children of earth, but eternally the children of the whole universe. Don’t I feel in my soul that I am a part of that vast, harmonius whole? . . . one grain, one step upward from lower beings to higher ones? . . . I feel that I cannot disappear as nothing does disappear in the universe, that indeed I always shall be and always have been. I feel that beside me, above me, there are spirits, and that in their world there is truth.

- Count Pierre Besukhov

This religious quote, shows the intensity and vision that Tolstoy must have had to create such powerful amorous words. His characters (War and Peace has more characters then almost ANY other book) are each created with mind to every last detail and are all a unique personality that add to the value of the novel. In retrospect, Tolstoy employs much the same techniques as Shakespeare, showing all sides of an argument when he is trying to prove only one singular point, creating a sense of fair-ness to his stories.

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