Against the backdrop of war and political upheaval, families and individuals struggle with love, ambition, destiny, and the search for meaning.

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is an epic work of Russian literature that brings together the personal lives of its characters with the sweeping events of the Napoleonic Wars.

Through aristocratic families, soldiers, lovers, and ordinary people, Tolstoy explores friendship, romance, family, ambition, courage, loss, history, and the forces that shape human lives.

Its enormous cast of characters and richly detailed historical setting create a sweeping portrait of Russian society during one of Europe's most turbulent periods.

Enter Tolstoy's monumental world of love, family, history, and war in one of the greatest novels of world literature.