War and Peace
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Page count-wise, it looks less like "War and Peace" and more like a user manual for a can opener.
From Salon • Mar. 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
In his novel War and Peace, he contended that the “general mass of men” who participate in history are the ones who truly cause events.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“Why, it was War and Peace, a very large book. I raised it up slowly and then I aimed it carefully and I threw it right at that bear and screamed, ‘Be gone!’
From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
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