century. His writings are found to be very interesting and believable. War and Peace, is

considered his masterpiece; it is large in size and explicit in information. If half of his

descriptions and background were taken out, this could be a two-hundred page book, rather than

a fourteen-hundred page. Tolstoy achieved this feat through the realistic portrayal of events and

people. Many of the situations in the novel are true to life because they are based on certain true

Tolstoy joined the army in 1851 and later participated in the Crimean War. As a result of

this he had the first hand experience of a soldier fighting on the battlefield. However, since he did

know much about the early 19th century,

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