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I can see why John Bayley, in the intro to the Dunnigan translation, says that Tolstoy didn't consider this work a novel as such, nor an epic. Unlike Anna Karenina, War and Peace fits no particular literary form. The parts about war became very interesting to me, especially all that Tolstoy thought about how the generals, except for Kutozov, were just glory hounds. And what Tolstoy had to say about Napoleon and "great" men was dead on target:
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word of advice: skip the epilogues. my brain was going numb by epilogue 2. if i had anticipated the content i would have been ok but as it was I just wanted it to end. I am glad I finally broke down and read it. I now have more of an interest in Napoleon. However, apparently editors were in short supply at the time of publication b/c Tolstoy repeats things several times. That definitely got a bit old. The characters came together for me around the middle of the book, however (so many of them use
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