War and Peace

Name: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781909175648

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 1402 pages
ISBN: 9781909175648
Published: 15 August 2012
Imprint: Sovereign

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Description

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a complex work that explores the nature of war and peace. The novel tells the story of two aristocratic families, the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, as they experience the Napoleonic Wars. Tolstoy examines the consequences of war on both individual lives and on society as a whole. He also explores the possibility of lasting peace. War and Peace is often considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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