Newsweek in 2009 ranked it first in its Top 100 Books.

The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869.

Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger between 18. The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsaristsociety, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. War and Peace and Tolstoy's other major prose work, Anna Karenina (1875–77), are considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. It is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. Voyná i mir ) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

War and Peace ( pre-reform Russian: Война́ и миръ post-reform Russian: Война́ и мир, translit.

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