War and Peace

How it opens

“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…

Details

• AuthorLeo Tolstoy
• SourceProject Gutenberg #2600
• Length560,718 words · 37h 23m of reading
• Chapters97
• DictionaryIncluded
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

97 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. 07The first act was over. In the stalls everyone began moving about, going out and coming in.
8. 08Quos vult perdere dementat. *
9. 09CHAPTER III
10. 10CHAPTER IV
11. 11CHAPTER V
12. 12CHAPTER VI
13. 13CHAPTER VII
14. 14CHAPTER VIII
15. 15CHAPTER IX
16. 16CHAPTER X
17. 17CHAPTER XI
18. 18CHAPTER XII
19. 19CHAPTER XIII
20. 20CHAPTER XIV
21. 21CHAPTER XV
22. 22CHAPTER XVI
23. 23CHAPTER XVII
24. 24CHAPTER XVIII
25. 25CHAPTER XIX
26. 26CHAPTER XX
27. 27CHAPTER XXI
28. 28CHAPTER XXII
29. 29CHAPTER XXIII
30. 30CHAPTER XXXV
31. 31CHAPTER XXXVI
32. 32CHAPTER XXXVII
33. 33CHAPTER XXXVIII
34. 34CHAPTER XXXIX
35. 35CHAPTER XXI
36. 36CHAPTER XXII
37. 37CHAPTER XXIII
38. 38CHAPTER XXIV
39. 39CHAPTER XXV
40. 40CHAPTER XXVI
41. 41CHAPTER XXVII
42. 42CHAPTER XXVIII
43. 43CHAPTER XXIX
44. 44CHAPTER XXX
45. 45CHAPTER XXXI
46. 46CHAPTER XXXII
47. 47CHAPTER XXXIII
48. 48CHAPTER XXXIV
49. 49Your Sónya
50. 50MOSCOW, OCTOBER 30, 1812
51. 51PROCLAMATION
52. 52CHAPTER X
53. 53CHAPTER XI
54. 54CHAPTER XII
55. 55CHAPTER XIII
56. 56CHAPTER XIV
57. 57CHAPTER XV
58. 58CHAPTER XVI
59. 59CHAPTER XVII
60. 60CHAPTER XVIII
61. 61CHAPTER XIX
62. 62CHAPTER I
63. 63CHAPTER II
64. 64CHAPTER III
65. 65CHAPTER IV
66. 66CHAPTER V
67. 67CHAPTER VI
68. 68CHAPTER VII
69. 69CHAPTER VIII
70. 70CHAPTER IX
71. 71CHAPTER X
72. 72CHAPTER XI
73. 73CHAPTER XII
74. 74CHAPTER XIII
75. 75CHAPTER XIV
76. 76CHAPTER XV
77. 77CHAPTER XVI
78. 78CHAPTER XVII
79. 79CHAPTER XVIII
80. 80CHAPTER XIX
81. 81CHAPTER XX
82. 82CHAPTER XIII
83. 83CHAPTER XIV
84. 84CHAPTER XV
85. 85CHAPTER XVI
86. 86CHAPTER I
87. 87CHAPTER II
88. 88CHAPTER III
89. 89CHAPTER IV
90. 90CHAPTER V
91. 91CHAPTER VI
92. 92CHAPTER VII
93. 93CHAPTER VIII
94. 94CHAPTER IX
95. 95CHAPTER X
96. 96CHAPTER XI
97. 97CHAPTER XII

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