War and Peace
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Just ahead of a quote from the leader of - of all things - the Apollo space programme, Mr Cummings quotes from War and Peace: "Nothing was ready for the war which everybody expected."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
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
Photos of Thaci and others facing similar charges in The Hague are displayed across the country with the inscription: "Heroes of War and Peace."
From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2023
The insight was precocious, anticipating as it did the distinction between history as experienced and history as remembered, most famously depicted in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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