War and Peace
Struggle and tranquility
War and Peace is Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel, an epic of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars.
The title has become shorthand for any extremely long book: I asked for a summary, not War and Peace.
The phrase also captures life's grand dichotomy—the alternation between conflict and tranquility that shapes human experience.
- bookBound written work
- novelNew and unusual
- warArmed struggle between groups
- Russian literatureFiction from that vast nation
- Russian novelFiction from that vast nation
Anna Karenina · Tolstoy · French invasion · battle · army · soldier · blood · pacifism · masterpiece · Great Books · long read · serfdom · moral dilemmas · spiritual crisis · psychological depth · spiritual awakening · epic · truce
- Napoleonic EraNapoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Napoleonic Code, Waterloo
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Classic NovelsAnna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Middlemarch, Crime and Punishment, Great Expectations
- European literatureAnna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Dracula, Frankenstein
- Literary CanonShakespeare, Homer, Dante, Tolstoy, Dickens
- Long NovelsLes Miserables, Don Quixote, Clarissa, Atlas Shrugged, The Stand
War and Peaceshort story
Brief prose fiction
novella · haiku · flash fiction · tweet · vignette
War and Peacebeach read
Light vacation novel
airport novel · easy read · quick read · pulp fiction · potboiler
War and PeaceSeinfeld
domestic comedy · slice of life · Much Ado About Nothing · triviality · sitcom
peace, peaceful, warfare, wars, peacefully, warring, warlike, peacemaker, warship