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    War and Peace
    War and Peace
    War and Peace
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    War and Peace

    By Leo Tolstoy and Centaur Classics

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    "The last word of the landlord's literature and the brilliant one at that." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    "The best ever Russian historical novel." —Nikolai Leskov
    "One of the most remarkable books of our age." —Ivan Turgenev
    "This is the first class work!… This is powerful, very powerful indeed." —Gustave Flaubert
    "The best novel that had ever been written." —John Galsworthy
    "This work, like life itself, has no beginning, no end. It is life itself in its eternal movement." —Romain Rolland
    "The greatest ever war novel in the history of literature." —Thomas Mann
    "There remains the greatest of all novelists — for what else can we call the author of ‘War and Peace’?" —Virginia Woolf
    "Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction." —Vladimir Nabokov

    Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and soirées alternate with councils of war and the machinations of statesmen and generals, scenes of violent battles with everyday human passions in a work whose extraordinary imaginative power has never been surpassed. The prodigious cast of characters, both great and small, seem to act and move as if connected by threads of destiny as the novel relentlessly questions ideas of free will, fate, and providence. Yet Tolstoy's portrayal of marital relations and scenes of domesticity is as truthful and poignant as the grand themes that underlie them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeo Tolstoy
    Release dateJan 6, 2016
    ISBN9788892537170
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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