![]() It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news.” According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "no single English novel attains the universality of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel. He also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. Large sections, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion rather than narrative. Tolstoy himself said that War and Peace was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". In 2007, Time magazine ranked War and Peace third in its poll of the 10 greatest books of all time while Anna Karenina was ranked first. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its Top 100 Books. ![]() The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger between 18. The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsaristsociety, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. ![]() War and Peace and Tolstoy's other major prose work, Anna Karenina (1875–77), are considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. It is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. Voyná i mir ) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace ( pre-reform Russian: Война́ и миръ post-reform Russian: Война́ и мир, translit. Russia - History - Alexander I, 1801-1825 - Fiction.Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Russia - Fiction.Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. ![]() Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author).Aristocracy (Social class) - Russia - Fiction. ![]()
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