In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
War and Peace, an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was (151) published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This (152) study of early 19th century Russian society, noted for its (153) of realistic detail and variety of psychological (154) is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is (155) concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families, the members of which are (156) against the (157) background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon. The (158) of war, however, is (159) to the story of family existence which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting (160) of human existence.

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