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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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I loved this book- Pierre and Andre.
Lot's of characters and plot lines. But I had listened to the BBC dramatized version, so I could relax knowing where we were going.
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Lot's of characters and plot lines. But I had listened to the BBC dramatized version, so I could relax knowing where we were going.
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