War and Peace
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War and Peace is the vastest of all novels: Napoleon marches on Russia, and five families live through the storm. Tolstoy follows love, war, ruin, and rebirth from the ballrooms of Petersburg to the field of Borodino and the burning of Moscow. Read it in the original English of the Maude translation, with every hard word, name, and French phrase explained where it stands.
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