In ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ a 70-page slice of ‘War and Peace’—a love triangle set in a Moscow full of intrigues—is brought to bustling, colorful life. Senior Editor ...

Of the thousand-plus pages that make up War and Peace, he keeps just 70: a key passage tracing momentous experiences for Natasha and Pierre. Natasha, young, naive and in love with falling in love ...

(Jeffrey Schmidt) Malloy extracted a 70-page section of Leo Tolstoy’s complicated 1869 Russian novel War and Peace as the basis ... Alexandrovna Rostova. Natasha has come to await the return ...