My War & Peace posts gathered in one place.
War & Peace or Men & Women. Don’t you agree either title would fit Tolstoy’s masterpiece? I’m still reading the many paged novel—I hope to finish before the series wraps up—and I’ll be honest, while there is much to like about it, there’s also just so much of it, I’m going to be scandalous and say Tolstoy could have used an editor. Some of the battle scenes especially are endless and ultimately, just not that crucial to the story. Okay, aim your arrows in my direction. My opinion is just that, certainly not based on a deep—or even cursory—study of the novel. That being said, whenever Natasha, Pierre, Andrei or Nicolai are in a drawing room, pursuing the ‘Peace’ half of the novel, I’m riveted.
Meet the Characters
Click the links to read how Tolstoy wrote about them
James Norton
Jack Lowden as Nicolai Rostov
Tom Burke as Dolokhov
Gillian Anderson as
Anna Pavlovna Scherer
