A great way to practice your reading skills and expand Russian vocabulary is through reading original written works. Here is an epic novel written by Lev Tolstoy and considered to be a materpiece of realist fiction. The novel consists of eight parts. For your reading pleasure and convinience of study, we provide an English translation by Constance Garnett next to the original Russian text.

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