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Fiction · Historical fiction

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy
1869 · 1392 pages

Five families carried through Napoleon's invasion of Russia, with battle, marriage, farming, and a theory of history held in one design. You finish it knowing these people better than your own friends.

★ 9.8
Fiction · Philosophical novel

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869 · 656 pages

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss clinic, epileptic and incapable of guile, and Petersburg cannot decide whether to adore him or use him. The world takes a genuinely good man apart.

★ 8.1
Fiction · Realism

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert
1869 · 479 pages

Frédéric Moreau spends his youth in Paris loving a married woman he will never have and drifting through the 1848 revolution. Flaubert made wasted life a permanent subject for the novel.

★ 7.0
Fiction · Coming of age

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
1869 · 777 pages

Four sisters grow up poor in a Massachusetts town while their father serves in the Civil War. Jo March wants to write, and readers have measured their own ambition against hers ever since.

★ 7.0
Novel

"What's this? am I falling? my legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that, Above him there was nothing but the sky-the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.

Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace · 1869
★ 6.4
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