War and Peace
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War and Peace is a famous novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It is about two families in Russia during the wars with Napoleon.
The book says a lot about what the characters are thinking, and also tells Tolstoy's own idea about free will and why people do things.
[edit] Main characters
There are 580 characters in War and Peace, but the novel focuses on these people:
- Pierre Bezukhov
- Natasha Rostova
- Andrei Bolkonski
- Maria Bolkonskaya
- Nikolai Rostov
- Napoleon
- Kutuzov
- Elena Kuragina
- Anatoly Kuragin
