ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote ‘War and Peace’?
A
Thomas Hardly
B
Robert Lewis Stevenson
C
Scott
D
Leo Tolstoy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -War and Peace, historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865–69.

Detailed explanation-2: -War and Peace, historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865–69.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace to provide readers with historical accounts of the Napoleonic Wars, to entertain readers with unforgettable characters, and to satirize the laws of history.

Detailed explanation-4: -He wrote War and Peace between 1863 and 1868, and intended, at first, to write a domestic chronicle in the manner of Trollope (whom Tolstoy, with a few qualifications, admired). The novel would be set in 1856, and concern an aristocratic revolutionary and his return from exile in Siberia.

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