If you don’t believe me, read every book about him ever.Ĥ.
So instead they write about ‘destiny’ and ‘great men’ and ‘the will of the people’, and bore readers with extremely long expeditionary essays that seem to – OH WAIT. Why? Because they’re not nearly as clever as Tolstoy, that’s why. So in the interests of brevity, I present you with: Ten Things I Learnt From Reading War and Peaceġ. Also there’s a new season of Call the Midwife on at the moment – I mean… I have much work to do for… uni. Because I don’t want to bore you, or end up re-reading the entire book again (seriously, if I have to re-read this thing straight away I will cry).
So instead of trying to pick apart the immense complexity of this book, I’m going to go in the other direction, and simplify it as much as possible. Full of deep characterisation and intricate plotting, it would probably take several reviews to begin to cover all the material in this 1,300-page novel. War and Peace is well-known for being an absolute behemoth of a book.
This book is #16 on my Classics Club list.
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