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...and Love and Feuds and Ironic Money Troubles and Tolstoy's Philosophy of History, etc. |
When I tell people I've read Tolstoy's War and Peace, the two most common reactions are "The whole thing?" and "Eh, I liked Anna Karenina." I think a few things make this a difficult read: the length1, that the recommended translations use overly florid language2, and the subject matter. It's a novel that reads a bit like history, or perhaps more like philosophy wrapped in a parable about, well, war and peace.
