Started reading a 1000 page 19th century Polish realist novel

I got tired of racing through contemp YA books in half a day. Seriously, picking new books was taking like an hour a day. So I decided to see if there was maybe a book that I could grapple with for a solid week or two. And the book I picked is Boleslaw Prus' The Doll. It's basically War and Peace, but Polish. Also I don't know if there's any war or peac…