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PublisherTIME Warner Libraries

ISBN-101879329026

ISBN-139781879329027

eBay Product ID (ePID)1560301

Product Key Features

Publication Year1991

Book TitleWar and Peace

TopicLiterary

Number of Pages1216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorLeo Tolstoi

Book SeriesThe World's Great Bks.

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal891.734*

SynopsisOften 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."