War And Peace
The novel War and Peace was written by Leo Tolstoy. This and Anna Karenina are considered Tolstoy's Masterpieces.
It has covers a variety of characters in the Napoleonic Era. Each character deals with the broad themes or war and peace.
He wrote different versions of the book. Each one had a host of different characters. Some were based on people that Leo Tolstoy knew himself. Other people in the book are actual members of history.
The movie came out in 1956. It stared Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezukhov. The movie also had Audrey's soon to be husband Mel Ferrer.