NovelContinental · 1869Study guide · no full textDemanding

War and Peace

Tolstoy alternates ballrooms and battlefields so you feel how small great men are. His essays on history interrupt the story on purpose: the novel argues as well as shows.

War Love Time Power

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Love — how other works handle it →Power — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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