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Introduction by A. N. Wilson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: “To read him . . . is to find one’ s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.”
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War and Peace, Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- War and Peace
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lew Nikolajewitsch Tolstoi
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 1424
- ISBN10
- 0375760644
- ISBN13
- 9780375760648
- Series
- War and Peace
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Russia, Adapted for Film, Russian Literature, Required Reading, Adapted into Series, Napoleonic Wars, Tsarist Russia
- First published
- 1869
- Original title
- Война и мир
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
- Description
- Introduction by A. N. Wilson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual’s place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad: “To read him . . . is to find one’ s way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.”