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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: April 1, 2018

Finish date: June 30, 2018

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Aug 19, 2013 Antonomasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, 1001-books, ebooks-kindle, 2014, central-eastern-europe, divine-comedy-booklovers, 2013, historical-fiction, russia, bbc-big-read

Pevear & Volokhonsky translation; also read first few chapters of Edmonds.
[4.5. Especially if we ignore the Epilogue.] 02/12/14

Like a huge and complex orrery. The elegant movement, construction and synthesis was awe-inspiring. (Though, like other possible analogies - a classical symphony, or a dance in a Regency ball scene - there are other things I love more, whilst still being very impressed with what's there.) I was always interested in what was happening to the cast of characters, but didn't ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-classics, challenge-bingo-2021

This is one of my Big Reads in 2021 that I plan to read slowly and purposefully. I am setting myself a 6-month Reading Plan for this book.

UPDATE: After all these years of saying I’m going to read War and Peace one day, I can finally strike that HUGE goal off my list. I read it in small bites and am so glad I didn’t rush through it. It is definitely a book to be savored and mulled over. I loved reading the personal stories and the intrigue in Tsarist Russia (Peace) as well as Napoleon’s invasion ...more

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