War and Peace (Paperback)

By Leo Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson, Constance Garnett
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Description

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.”

About the Author

A. N. Wilson is an award-winning novelist, biographer, and journalist, and the author of God’s Funeral and the biographies C. S. Lewis, Paul, and Jesus. He lives in London.

Praise for War and Peace…

“There remains the greatest of all novelists—for what else can we call the author of War and Peace?” —Virginia Woolf

Product Details ISBN-10: 0375760644
ISBN-13: 9780375760648
Published: Modern Library, 07/09/2002
Pages: 1424
Language: English