Book: War And Peace 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 fully realized and equally memorable characters that populate this massive chronicle. 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."
Details of Book: War And Peace Book: War And Peace
Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, A. N. Wilson
ISBN: 0345472403
ISBN-13: 9780345472403
, 978-0345472403
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2004/08/31
Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Number of Pages: 1424
Language: English