War and Peace

Moderate · 3/5

Battle scenes from the Napoleonic Wars, including descriptions of injury and death on the battlefield; not gratuitously graphic but present and significant.

Mild · 1/5

Period-appropriate mild profanity and crude references scattered throughout; not a primary concern but present in the original text.

Some · 2/5

References to affairs, seduction, and sexual relationships among aristocratic characters; some scenes imply sexual activity but are not explicit.

Moderate · 3/5

Themes include suicide (a character's death by suicide), grief, moral despair, and the psychological toll of war; the misogyny of the era is reflected in female characters' limited agency.

Mild · 1/5

Casual references to alcohol consumption in social settings typical of 19th-century Russian nobility.