War and Peace

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War and Peace is a famous novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It is about two families in Russia during the wars with Napoleon.

The book says a lot about what the characters are thinking, and also tells Tolstoy's own idea about free will and why people do things.

[edit] Main characters

There are 580 characters in War and Peace, but the novel focuses on these people:

  • Pierre Bezukhov
  • Natasha Rostova
  • Andrei Bolkonski
  • Maria Bolkonskaya
  • Nikolai Rostov
  • Napoleon
  • Kutuzov
  • Elena Kuragina
  • Anatoly Kuragin