War and Peace - The Notably Condensed Version

Characters Present: Location: A discussion regarding Napoleon's victories before making it to Russia.  Also, chance is the vehicle b...

Characters Present: Location: History says "chance created the situation, genius utilised it" - regarding most noteworthy t...

Characters Present: Location:   Tolstoy muses over the approach of historians to Alexander I and Napoleon.  He surmises that neith...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Natasha Rostova Location:   Moscow After Pierre leaves dinner, Natas...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Location:   Moscow Pierre continues to be in love with Natasha, but does not occupy himself with...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Natasha Rostova Location:   Moscow Pierre puts off his trip to Peter...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Natasha Rostova Location:   Moscow Pierre stays for dinner, and Nata...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Natasha Rostova Location:   Moscow The three friends discuss the de...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Natasha Rostova Location:   Moscow Pierre stays in the unburnt port...

Characters Present: Location:   Moscow The Russians start returning to Moscow in droves, and plunder whatever the French didn'...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov The Princess (?) Count Willarski Location:   Orël The people around Pierre notice the chang...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Location:   Orël As soon as Pierre arrives in Orël, he gets what the doctors call "biliou...

Characters Present: Tsar Alexander Kutúzov Toll Konovnítsyn Ermólov Location:   Vílna Despite being given the reward, Kutúzov...

Characters Present: Tsar Alexander Kutúzov Location:   Berëzina and Vílna It is said that the destruction of the bridge over the ...

Characters Present: Makéev Jackdaw the 5th Company Ramballe Morel Location:   At the edge of a forest, just out of Krásnoe Ma...

Characters Present: Makéev Jackdaw The 8th Company Location:   Just out of Krásnoe Makéev and Jackdaw are gossiping over the ca...

Characters Present: Location:   Just out of Krásnoe It was the last day of the Battle of Krásnoe, and a severely reduced Russian i...

Characters Present: Kutúzov Location:   Krásnoe The battle of Krásnoe has been won, and Kutúzov goes around inspecting the state o...

Characters Present: Kutúzov Location:   In 1812 and 1813, Kutúzov is openly called a blunderer, a procrastinator and is generally o...

Characters Present: Kutúzov Location:   Krásnoe The Russian army reaches Krásnoe with 50,000 men.  They attack the French against...

Characters Present: Natasha Rostova Princess Mary Bolkónskaya Location:   Yarosláv Natasha is the only one able to attend to her...

Characters Present: Natasha Rostova Countess Natalya Rostova Count Ilya Rostóv Location:   Yaroslávl Petya has been killed. Nat...

Characters Present: Natasha Rostova Princess Mary Bolkónskaya  Location:   Yaroslávl' Natasha and Princess Mary are both gr...

Characters Present: Kutúzov Location:   Though the French retreat from Russia is attributed to clever strategies devised by Kutú...

Characters Present: Napoleon Location:   Napoleon leaves Russia and returns to France.  Tolstoy says that historians make the retre...

Characters Present: Napoleon Location:   All over Russia The French army - around seventy-three-thousand men - continue to flee ...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Location:   From Vyázma to Dorogobúzh Pierre dreams that he is told the nature of life by a for...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Karatáev Location:   From Vyázma to Dorogobúzh There is some excitement in the French army, p...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Karatáev Location:   From Vyázma to Dorogobúzh Karatáev tells Pierre a story about an old mer...

Characters Present: Pierre Bezukhov Karatáev Location:   From Vyázma to Dorogobúzh From Vyázma the French army consolidates to a...

Characters Present: Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov Pétya Rostóv Denísov Pierre Bezukhov Location:   Shámshevo Horses are selected and...

Characters Present: Denísov Pétya Rostóv Likhachëv - a Cossack Location:   Shámshevo Pétya returns to the guerrilla camp, and t...

Characters Present: Fedor Ivanovich Dólokhov Pétya Rostóv Location:   Shámshevo Dólokhov swaggers into the French camp, crouche...

Characters Present: Dólokhov Denísov Pétya Rostóv Location:   Shámshevo Dólokhov arrives, and proposes that he and one other p...

Characters Present: Denísov Pétya Rostóv Tíkhon Shcherbáty Vincent Bosse - the captured French drummer-boy Location:   Shámshevo ...

Characters Present: Denísov Pétya Rostóv Tíkhon Shcherbáty A captured French drummer-boy Location:   Shámshevo Tíkhon returns t...

Characters Present: Denísov Pétya Rostóv Tíkhon Shcherbáty A captured French drummer-boy Location:   Shámshevo Denísov is hiding ...

Characters Present: Denísov Esaul Lováyski the Third Pétya Rostóv A captured French drummer-boy Location:   Between Mikúlino and...

Characters Present: Denísov Dólokhov Tíkhon Shcherbáty Denís Davýdov Location:   Mikúlino and Shámshevo The "Partisan W...