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Language: en Published in: 1922 Subject(s): Short Fiction This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal More >

Language: en Published in: 1869 Subject(s): Novels – History – War Translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major More >