1869 books (Book Guide): 1869 novels, War and Peace, Le Spleen de Paris, The Man Who Laughs, The Idiot, The Innocents Abroad, Lorna Doone

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 31. Chapters: 1869 novels, War and Peace, Le Spleen de Paris, The Man Who Laughs, The Idiot, The Innocents Abroad, Lorna Doone, A Memoir of Jane Austen, Sentimental Education, An Old-Fashioned Girl, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, He Knew He Was Right, Catechism of a Revolutionary, The Malay Archipelago, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, Mirat-ul-Uroos, Culture and Anarchy, Letters From My Windmill, 1869 in literature, L'Arlésienne, France and England in North America, A Luneta Mágica, The Eclipse, Old Town Folks. Excerpt: War and Peace (Russian: , Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ») is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is one of the most celebrated works of fiction. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other famous work Anna Karenina (1873-1877). War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. Portions of an earlier version were serialized in the magazine The Russian Messenger between 1865 and 1867. The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Newsweek in 2009 ranked it top of its list of Top 100 Books. Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle." An undated photograph of Leo Tolstoy's son dressed for Russian winter Tolstoy's notes from the ninth draft of War and Peace, 1864War and Peace is famously long for a novel (though not the longest). It is subdivided into four books or volumes, each with subparts containing many chapters. Tolstoy came up with the title, and some of his themes, from an 1861 work of Proudhon: L...