War and peace / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude ; edited by Henry Gifford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Contributor:

Gifford, Henry

Series:

World's classics

The World's Classics

Standardized Title:

Voĭna i mir. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Russia--Fiction.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Russia--History--Alexander I, 1801-1825--Fiction.

Russia.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xli,1344 pages : maps ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

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."

Notes:

Translation of: Voĭna i mir.

"This translation first published by Oxford University Press 1922-3"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page xviii).

ISBN:

0192827804

OCLC:

21151281