War and Peace, Book 11: 1812, Chapter 9 summary
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In Chapter 9, Pierre dreams of the soldiers’ calm and hears thoughts about simplicity, suffering, and overcoming fear, but cannot recover their meaning when he wakes. News of the French advance sends him through streets crowded with wounded men, and he travels to Moscow while hearing reports of two deaths.
What happens
- Pierre wakes in terror from imagined battle sounds, then finds comfort in the quiet inn yard.
- He longs to share the soldiers’ communal life and dreams of his dead benefactor speaking among familiar men.
- Dream thoughts connect simplicity, courage, suffering, and the need to harness his thoughts together.
- The groom wakes Pierre to harness the horses, and Pierre loses his sense of revelation.
- News places the French near Mozhaisk, while departing troops leave about ten thousand wounded behind.
- Pierre gives a wounded general his carriage, accompanies him to Moscow, and hears reports that Anatole and Prince Andrew are dead.
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