how long is war and peace? who wrote it ? what is it about?

Answer 1

The Modern Library Classics paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is 1424 pages long. You can read a good plot overview on Sparknotes.com

Answer 2

War and Peace by LeoTolstoy is longer than the longest Harry Potter Book, but not as long as all of them if they were written as one book.

It is a study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14).

The reason it is so long is because of the very "detail" that makes it such a great novel. It contains stories of love and sacrifice and reads just like a TV soap opera.

Answer 3

Hey Multytask,

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.

War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

Read more about it at wikipedia.