Story · Russia · 1869
Pass it on
War and Peace
70Worth an evening.
Don't read it for the battles. The families that get through them are the point.
The review
Nobody in this house is finishing it in a weekend. Tolstoy pulls several households through battles, balls, and a burning city, and he keeps coming back to the ordinary life that survives. The war is not a glory. I felt that more in the rooms than in the long stretches you can put down.
Take it in pieces. A house can read it slowly, which is the only way this one works. If the week gives you a chapter, take a family between the noise. He does not treat the burning city as a thrill. What he trusts is the life that is still there after it. That is a long book's real offer.
Journal
Keep War and Peace in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
Ordinary life, not the campaign, is the work he keeps trusting.
- 8Household
Several households are pulled through the war and remain the point.
- 5Piety
The war is not a glory; he will not write it as one.
- 7Courage
Households are taken through battles and a burning city.
- 8Republic
Russia in the years of Napoleon; the war belongs to the country.
- 7Temperance
Balls and battles fill the pages, and glory is still refused.
- 8Truth
The war is not a glory; the life that survives is the claim.
- 7Stewardship
What lasts is the ordinary life after the city burns.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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