The Beauty of knowing (2): Napoleon’s war and Tolstoy’s peace
‘Napoleon’, and everyone imagines an extraordinary hero (at least I did), but I say, read War and Peace; when someone says ‘Napoleon’ you will say ‘That clown’! For starters, War and Peace is a novel (though the author does not call it so and he has every reason not to), and a BIIIG one! But big and small have no meaning unless they are relative, so just for the sake of comparision: the number of words in War and Peace is around seven and a half times more than the…
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