War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869 CE · Novel · Russian · Victorian

Napoleon's armies move east while Pierre Bezukhov looks for a way to live, Prince Andrei looks for glory, and Natasha Rostova grows up between them. Petersburg salons give way to Austerlitz and Borodino, and Moscow is abandoned to the French. History as the sum of countless small wills.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ The Iliad
  Homer · c. 750 BCE · Poem
• influenced by ↑ The Charterhouse of Parma
  Stendhal · 1839 CE · Novel
• influenced by ↑ Sevastopol Sketches
  Leo Tolstoy · 1855 CE · Short Story
• ↓ Life and Fate
  Vasily Grossman · 1980 CE · Novel — modeled on this
• ↓ August 1914
  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1971 CE · Novel — responds to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean · 1965 CE · Film

  55% · 11 shared
  HistoricalEpicWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateLoveMemory & TimeEverymanLoverGenerational Sagavs Fate / GodsEpic
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  Luo Guanzhong · c. 1400 CE · Novel

  46% · 11 shared
  NovelHistoricalEpicWarWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateHeroMentorGenerational Sagavs Fate / GodsEpic
• The Bhagavad Gita
  Hindu scripture · c. 200 BCE · Scripture

  46% · 10 shared
  WarWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateFaith & DoubtHeroMentorThe Battlefieldvs Fate / Godsvs SelfEpic
• Heimskringla
  Snorri Sturluson · c. 1230 CE · Novel

  44% · 11 shared
  NovelHistoricalEpicWar & ViolenceFaith & DoubtHeroGenerational SagaThe Battlefieldvs Fate / GodsEpicRealist
• The Mahabharata
  Vyasa (attrib.) · c. 400 BCE · Poem

  44% · 9 shared
  EpicWarWar & ViolenceFreedom vs FateFaith & DoubtHeroMentorvs Fate / GodsEpic
• Mrityunjay
  Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya · 1970 CE · Novel

  41% · 10 shared
  NovelHistoricalWarWar & ViolenceFaith & DoubtEverymanMentorThe Battlefieldvs SelfRealist