Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace
- © Wordsworth Editions Limited 1993
- With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude.War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon’s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy’s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy’s philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy’s approval.
- • Language: English
• Size: 13 x 20 cm
• Pages: 994
• Paperback
• First edition: 1993
• Year: 2001