Bibliograph

War and peace, Leo Tolstoy

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Label

War and peace, Leo Tolstoy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1223-1247) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

War and peace

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Leo Tolstoy

Summary

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."

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