Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true novel.
Tolstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a novel. Large sections, especially the later chapters, are a philosophical discussion rather than narrative.
Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle". The novel was first published in its entirety in 1869. Portions of an earlier version, titled The Year 1805, were serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1865 to 1867. The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, which is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements. First 5 books of War and Peace, novel by Leo Tolstoy.
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