![]() ![]() He was born an aristocrat – Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy – inheriting a number of country estates and the peasant serfs who lived on them. In his first major novel, Tolstoy chose familiar territory. ![]() To drive home his point, Tolstoy also inserts explanatory essays at various stages in the text. War and Peace reflects this view through the characters and their interactions. Tolstoy felt that human history was an infinite chain of small, insignificant moments in which all individuals, mighty or humble, were involved. It’s a reflection of Leo Tolstoy’s strongly held beliefs – a philosophical tract, not just about politics, war, love, marriage and property, but about history itself and the way the affairs of society are reported.Ĭentral to the book is his antipathy towards the way in which historians of his time presented events as entirely influenced by powerful people: monarchs, politicians and generals. ![]()
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