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War And Peace (Book Center)
War And Peace (Book Center)
War And Peace (Book Center)
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Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them.

"The last word of the landlord's literature and the brilliant one at that." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The best ever Russian historical novel." —Nikolai Leskov
"One of the most remarkable books of our age." —Ivan Turgenev
"This is the first class work!… This is powerful, very powerful indeed." —Gustave Flaubert
"The best novel that had ever been written." —John Galsworthy
"This work, like life itself, has no beginning, no end. It is life itself in its eternal movement." —Romain Rolland
"The greatest ever war novel in the history of literature." —Thomas Mann
"There remains the greatest of all novelists — for what else can we call the author of 'War and Peace'?" —Virginia Woolf
"Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction." —Vladimir Nabokov
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Release dateMay 4, 2017
ISBN9782377870851
War And Peace (Book Center)
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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Tula, near Moscow. His parents, who both died when he was young, belonged to the Russian nobility, and to the end of his life Tolstoy remained conscious of his aristocratic status. His novels, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ are literary classics and he is revered as one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1910 at the age of 82.

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