What I notice about women in the novel is that none of them seems to have realistic notions about what to expect from marriage, and all of them end up transformed by the institution in ways they did...
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What I notice about women in the novel is that none of them seems to have realistic notions about what to expect from marriage, and all of them end up transformed by the institution in ways they did...
Dolokhov is exactly the kind of man you'd want on your side - in war or in peace. You might not like him (I find him attractive too, we girls do like our bad boys). But he's smart, calm, capable,...
Chapter 26 is of course the right chapter - just before the big battle. Good job, cristalpackers.
It's around chapter 29 or 30 of Volume 3 (old style numbering - as by Tolstoy, probably Book 3 in the Maud version). Maybe chapter 28. It's the night before the Battle of Borodino and Napoleon has...
War and Peace is one of the best books I've ever read, but I wasn't able to get into it when I was younger. I too thought it was boring - then. Little by little, my tastes turned away from popular...
P.S. When I go to the Harper Perennial link posted above as being to the "original version" nothing at all by Tolstoy shows up (or Tolstoi) and nothing shows up under War and Peace. At any rate,...
I came to this thread to find out more about the publication of "1805" (which must surely be what people mean when they say "the original War and Peace." Has it been published in English? If it was...
I am very close to thinking what Adventure Man says. For one thing, the sound sequence "mir" with or without its hard sound ending is thousands of years old and every single Russian etymologist...
There are so many incredibly humorous moments in War and Peace. My husband and I are reading it aloud right now and we have to stop every evening to wipe tears from our eyes.
The scene where the...
Didn't Anna Pavlovna used to be married? How did she get her German last name otherwise? The source of her money isn't revealed, but there are only so many ways for a woman to have that kind of...
I'm preferring Pevear and Volokhonsky.
I started about 10 days ago - so count me in. I find I can't put it down. I've read Anna Karenina four times (and other Tolstoi too), but I wasn't prepared for how much I would love this book and...
Thank you for the message about the translation. I'm looking for a hard cover version and would prefer to read a separate translation, for many reasons, but partly just for comparison.
I am...