War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Reviews

I am the book-a-week type reader. I can easily read an 800+ page book in a week, and truly get my teeth into the characters and events at the same time. War and Peace however, was different. You cannot rush this book, the genius of Tolsoy's story telling deserves relish. One must consume and savour every individual word to ...  Read the complete review

This book is nothing short of incredible. Within its pages the whole range of human emotions, sensibilities and fallibilities are examined, and Tolstoy's insights into the human character demonstrates a writer of great insight, curiosity and empathy. When I picked up this book for the first time, and saw its many pages with its tiny ...  Read the complete review

I decided a year go that I was going to start reading all the great masterpieces of literature. It seemed to me that it would be a shame to move from this world to the next without ever having read the classic books. This is how I came to buy and read War and Peace. The plot covers Russia during the Napoleonic wars. At its ...  Read the complete review

War and Peace deservedly ranks as one of the greatest novels of its time and some may say come in the top 100 books ever, and personally I agree. I picked this book up to travel round Europe with as it looked like it may take some time and so last my voracious appetite for reading, but once I started it on the ...  Read the complete review

This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. I would say thats this is one on Tolstoy's masterpieces and one of the greatest novels. War and Peace is a portrait of the nineteenth-century Russian ...  Read the complete review

'War and Peace' is one of the greatest works of historical fiction ever written. It is hard to know which is the more impressive, the size and scale of the story or that of the book itself. I bought a paperback copy of this book for £1 from the classics section of WHsmiths a number of years ago and it was my only travelling ...  Read the complete review

I am not a great reader of classic books, but I make it my aim to read a few of the best admired books in my lifetime, just to see what all the fuss has been about. (I hate to think I am missing out on something good!) Well, War and Peace was a challenge, and it took me years to muster up the courage to tackle it. I ...  Read the complete review

Leo Tolstoy's famous novel is infamous for its length. Over one and a half thousand pages, its size seems overwhelming, Yet such is his talent as a storyteller, the quality of his characters and the drama of the events that every page is justified. He tells the story of not just a few characters, but an entire country, Russia at the ...  Read the complete review