War and Peace

af Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (1869) by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families¿the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins, and the Drubetskoys. Andrey Bolkonsky injured and presumed dead in the Battle of Austerlitz arrives home to his wife, Lise, who dies during childbirth. Pierre Bezukhov marries Helene Kuragina who is unfaithful to him, resulting in t... (Læs mere)