" In one of its sections, historians throw stones at Alexander before noting "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed."
Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction claims that, while the symbolism of The Grapes of Wrath seems stilted with time, this work's commentary grows more compelling, and The Hedgehog and the Fox uses passages from this novel to analyze its author's "view of history." In one of its sections, historians throw stones at Alexander before noting "If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed." The protagonist duels with Dolokhov over Elena Kuragin, and joins a foreign army to assassinate its leader, who his Freemason numerology proves is the Anti-Christ, but must be rescued by Kutusov's Cossack forces. Ending with the happy marriages of Nikolai with Prince Andrei's sister Maria and Natasha Rostov with Pierre Bezukhov, FTP, name this epic novel about Napoleon's invasion of Russia, by Leo Tolstoy.
Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction claims that, while the symbolism of The Grapes of Wrath seems stilted with time, this work's commentary grows more compelling, and The Hedgehog and the Fox uses passages from this novel to analyze its author's "view of history.
{War and Peace}  [or {Voyna i mir}]