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Tolstoy records a crisis of meaning and examines why achievement, status and ordinary pleasures can fail to answer deeper questions about existence. The result is an unusually personal philosophical work about faith, mortality and purpose
The first part of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy follows young Nikolai Irténiev through family life, education, affection, shame, and the gradual discovery of adult emotions
Tolstoy depicts a successful judge whose fatal illness forces him to confront the emptiness of the life he built and to reconsider fear, suffering, family, and what it means to live honestly
Tolstoy develops a Christian critique of violence and coercion while arguing that moral transformation begins with individual conscience
War and Peace follows several Russian families through the Napoleonic Wars and the years surrounding them, combining enormous historical events with intensely private lives. Tolstoy refuses to treat history as the story of great men alone
Tolstoy treats art as a social and moral form of communication, making the book a useful argument to test against more aesthetic theories
Tolstoy’s autobiographical novel follows a young man entering adulthood and confronting pride, idealism, shame, relationships, morality, and the desire to become a better person
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