War and Peace
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The thought kept occurring to me while reading "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy’s massive novel following a few Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2024
Since Wikipedia is more than 20 years old, some of these walls of texts are now lengthier than War and Peace.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2023
In his novel War and Peace, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy argued that there is far more to history than the actions of one person.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Mr. Akbari of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, pointed to videos showing women cutting off their hair in public, or on social media, as unique to the current demonstrations.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022
You have to remember, since we’d been in each other’s company constantly since arriving at the Cottages, it wasn’t possible for any of us to have read War and Peace without the rest noticing.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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