War And Peace Vol.2: v. 2 (Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo; Edmonds, Rosemary

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9780140440638: War And Peace Vol.2: v. 2 (Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140440631 ISBN 13: 9780140440638

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1978

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Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families, together with critical and textual notes

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Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.

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