Possible Clues:

• Like e.g. pretty ugly, nondescript coats tailor's beginning
• Having no character drinking tea loudly, like seven pairs of solutions here
• As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial
• What I could be with you?
• As War and Peace to corporal an old American holds captive
• As near and far are to many at sea with us? No!
• Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in
• Like War and Peace — unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial