Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is the go-to titanic breeze block read for anyone sheltering from an atomic apocalypse, ploughing through a life sentence, or queueing for a Ryanair flight to Bydgoszcz. Tolstoy largely rewrote the entire novel and planned an equally weighty sequel which just goes to show what you can achieve when you don't own a telly or belong to a tennis club...