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reviewed War and peace by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin classics deluxe edition)

"War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three …

Review of 'War and peace' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Whew. I read somewhere, #tolstoytogether perhaps, that reading this one is alternately “yes, exactly!” Or “wait, what??”

Yup. Both sublime but also rooted in so much mid-1800s Russian cultural context that flew right past; still wonderful.