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Book SynopsisThis lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later (Publishers Weekly).Considered by many critics the greatest novel ever written,
War and Peace is also one of the most feared. And at 1,500 pages, its no wonder why. Still, in July 2009
Newsweek put
War and Peace at the top of its list of 100 great novels and a 2007 edition of the
AARP Bulletin included the novel in their list of the top four books everybody should read by the age of fifty. A
New York Times survey from 2009 identified
War and Peace as the world classic youre most likely to find people reading on their subway commute to work. What might all those
Newsweek devotees, senior citizens, and harried commuters see in a book about the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s?
War and Peace is many thin
