War And Peace (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

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9780140622690: War And Peace (Penguin Popular Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140622691 ISBN 13: 9780140622690

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1997

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This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war.

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Among the great novels of the world, 'War and Peace' has long held pride of place because it fulfills, in its seamless interweaving of the historical and the personal, and its genius in registering the entire scale of human life, all the promise latent in the art of fiction itself.

About the Author:

Nikolai Tolstoy is a highly recognized and acclaimed historian and biographer. He was the sole beneficiary of his stepfather's will and is one of the trustees of O'Brian's estate.

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