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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

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“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frigh…

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  • AuthorLeo Tolstoy
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #2600
  • Length556,888 words · 37h 08m of reading
  • Chapters96
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

96 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01JULIE
  2. 02MARY
  3. 03NAPOLEON
  4. 04Moscow, 17th November
  5. 05Petersburg, 23rd November
  6. 06Julie said this was charming
  7. 07Quos vult perdere dementat. *
  8. 08CHAPTER III
  9. 09CHAPTER IV
  10. 10CHAPTER V
  11. 11CHAPTER VI
  12. 12CHAPTER VII
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII
  14. 14CHAPTER IX
  15. 15CHAPTER X
  16. 16CHAPTER XI
  17. 17CHAPTER XII
  18. 18CHAPTER XIII
  19. 19CHAPTER XIV
  20. 20CHAPTER XV
  21. 21CHAPTER XVI
  22. 22CHAPTER XVII
  23. 23CHAPTER XVIII
  24. 24CHAPTER XIX
  25. 25CHAPTER XX
  26. 26CHAPTER XXI
  27. 27CHAPTER XXII
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIII
  29. 29CHAPTER XXXV
  30. 30CHAPTER XXXVI
  31. 31CHAPTER XXXVII
  32. 32CHAPTER XXXVIII
  33. 33CHAPTER XXXIX
  34. 34CHAPTER XXI
  35. 35CHAPTER XXII
  36. 36CHAPTER XXIII
  37. 37CHAPTER XXIV
  38. 38CHAPTER XXV
  39. 39CHAPTER XXVI
  40. 40CHAPTER XXVII
  41. 41CHAPTER XXVIII
  42. 42CHAPTER XXIX
  43. 43CHAPTER XXX
  44. 44CHAPTER XXXI
  45. 45CHAPTER XXXII
  46. 46CHAPTER XXXIII
  47. 47CHAPTER XXXIV
  48. 48Your Sónya
  49. 49MOSCOW, OCTOBER 30, 1812
  50. 50PROCLAMATION
  51. 51CHAPTER X
  52. 52CHAPTER XI
  53. 53CHAPTER XII
  54. 54CHAPTER XIII
  55. 55CHAPTER XIV
  56. 56CHAPTER XV
  57. 57CHAPTER XVI
  58. 58CHAPTER XVII
  59. 59CHAPTER XVIII
  60. 60CHAPTER XIX
  61. 61CHAPTER I
  62. 62CHAPTER II
  63. 63CHAPTER III
  64. 64CHAPTER IV
  65. 65CHAPTER V
  66. 66CHAPTER VI
  67. 67CHAPTER VII
  68. 68CHAPTER VIII
  69. 69CHAPTER IX
  70. 70CHAPTER X
  71. 71CHAPTER XI
  72. 72CHAPTER XII
  73. 73CHAPTER XIII
  74. 74CHAPTER XIV
  75. 75CHAPTER XV
  76. 76CHAPTER XVI
  77. 77CHAPTER XVII
  78. 78CHAPTER XVIII
  79. 79CHAPTER XIX
  80. 80CHAPTER XX
  81. 81CHAPTER XIII
  82. 82CHAPTER XIV
  83. 83CHAPTER XV
  84. 84CHAPTER XVI
  85. 85CHAPTER I
  86. 86CHAPTER II
  87. 87CHAPTER III
  88. 88CHAPTER IV
  89. 89CHAPTER V
  90. 90CHAPTER VI
  91. 91CHAPTER VII
  92. 92CHAPTER VIII
  93. 93CHAPTER IX
  94. 94CHAPTER X
  95. 95CHAPTER XI
  96. 96CHAPTER XII

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