Russian мiр (world) should not be confused with homophonic мир (peace), as in “Войнa и мир” (“War and Peace”).

Thank you for this information, which I probably should have known but did not. For those interested in such things, I saw a copy of the first edition of “Войнa и мир” at the Los Angeles Book Festival a few days ago. It was brought by a French dealer and priced at $105,000. It was in six rather slender volumes, covered with "shagreen" which made them look for all the mir like accounting books. The same dealer offered a first edition of Madame Bovary with an inscription by Floebear himself at only $78,000!

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